Martin Charlton

Experienced forester

Martin Charlton is an experienced forester and estate manager, contractor and conservationist. He has spent much of the last 25 years involved with conservation activities, planning and planting woodlands and constructing wildlife habitats, with some contract coppicing and farm work when his schedule allows.

Martin Charlton is an experienced forester and estate manager, contractor and conservationist. He has spent much of the last 25 years involved with conservation activities, planning and planting woodlands and constructing wildlife habitats, with some contract coppicing and farm work when his schedule allows.

Latest articles from Martin Charlton

Skills shortages are found across many different sections of forestry

Recruitment 'Educate the educators': Experienced forester on how to address skills shortages
Forestry is the best job in the world and there’s plenty of work to be done.

A memorial bench in a national park overgrown with bramble and nettles, part of what I am told is in an area undergoing wilding.

Opinion 'It's flagrant misuse': Why one forester thinks it's time to rebrand rewilding

It may be all the rage in conservationist circles, but ‘wilding’ or ‘rewilding’ requires rather more human invention than the terminology suggests or media will admit.

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