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Details of all previous editions of CJS Focus, until 2009 these were
called CJS Weekly: Special Editions.
This is an index of articles which appeared in previous editions.
Click on the article title to read.
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CJS Focus on Trees and Hedges
In association with The Tree Council, for National Tree Week
Published: 21 November 2011
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Lead Article: Why Urban Trees Matter -
To Everyone, The Tree Council
Plant a tree for the Jubilee,
Woodland Trust
The Save Our Forests campaign from a
SaveOurWoods perspective, Save Our Woods
Tree Hugging Week 2011, Borders
Forest Trust
Hedges for Wildlife, Habitat Aid
Traditional coppicing is a boost to
bird species, from RSPB and Small Woods Association
A career with forests, woodlands &
trees, Royal Forestry Society
Sussex Wildlife Trust Forest Schools
Taking a bird’s eye view of England’s
traditional orchards has enabled conservationists to put one of the most
important wildlife habitats
back on the map, People's Trust for Endangered Species
Trees Under Threat - Update,
Forest Research
The importance of selecting the right
tree species before planting, James Coles and Sons (Nurseries) Ltd
CJS Focus on Outdoor Education
In association with The Campaign for National Parks
Published: 20 June 2011
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Lead Article: The recreational
importance of our National Parks, The Campaign for National Parks
What's so important about
Mountaineering?, The Mountaineering Council of Scotland
Recreation in the Countryside ~
Cycling, CTC
Nature's Playground - There for the
Taking, the Land Trust
The British Wildlife Photography
Awards
Talking wildlife, cows and ostriches
with Simon King, an interview
Geocaching in the UK, Terry Marsh
"Can't see why I'd ever need Mountain
Rescue" - famous last words, Mountain Rescue England & Wales
Tick Awareness: Key to Safety in the
Great Outdoors, from BADA-UK
Why are our parks and green spaces so
important?, Greenspace
CJS Focus on Volunteering
In association with The Scottish Countryside Rangers
Association and the Countryside Management Association
Published: 14 February 2011
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Lead Article: Big Society, Big
Challenges, CMA
Pentland Hills Regional Park Voluntary
Ranger Service
How can I help?, Bat Conservation
Trust
Volunteer Taster Days, Tameside
Metropolitan Borough Council
Every bird counts, BTO
Celebrating Our Heroic Volunteers,
BTCV
Join HWDT onboard and help us
understand British cetaceans better,
The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT)
Working to make the countryside a
better place with the WI
CJS Focus on Wildlife
In association with The Wildlife Trusts
Published: 22 November 2010
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Lead Article: The Wildlife Trusts'
vision for A Living Landscape
Coming Home, Great Bustard Group
Compassionate Conservation: A New
Synthesis, Born Free
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Wildlife Rescue, Hessilhead
Wildlife Rescue
The World's Biggest Wildlife Survey,
RSPB
A new bat species for Britain:
Alcathoe bat, University of Leeds
Wildlife Conservation work - the
inside story, Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
CJS Focus on Countryside Management
In association with The Scottish Countryside Rangers
Association and the Countryside Management Association
Published: 23 August 2010
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Lead Article: So what is Countryside Management?!
SCRA
Life on St Kilda National
Trust for Scotland's St Kilda
Ranger
Party on... your nature reserve?
Isle of Wight Council
Loving our Landscapes,
Heritage Lottery Fund
Chase to the rescue, West
Midlands Ambulance Service NHS
Country Parks Accreditation Scheme, Natural
England
Life of a Ranger,
Greensand Trust
Countryside Ranger exploits during the darker months by
John Parker, Glasgow CC
and Paul Finn, Derbyshire CC
The Future of Countryside Management?
CMA
CJS Focus on Farming and the Environment
In association with The Campaign for the Farmed Environment
Published: 24 May 2010
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Lead Article:
Playing your part in the Campaign for the Farmed Environment
Countryside Restoration Trust, farming for profit and for wildlife,
Countryside Restoration Trust
Farming, a Foundation for
our Future, Scottish Agricultural College
Grazing Advice Partnership: Grazing for Environmental Benefits
On-farm renewable energy – are you striking the right balance in your
business? Farming Futures
Do Smallholders have a positive environmental impact? Tim Tyne, Viable
Self-sufficiency
Food and Environmental Security is the Cornerstone to the Future CAP
says the CLA
CJS Focus on Volunteering
In association with BTCV's Carbon Army
Published: 8 February 2010
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Lead Article: The Carbon Army, BTCV
Benefits of Volunteering, Scottish Wildlife Trust
Wildlife spotting and other ways to volunteer with British Waterways, waterscape.com
Recruits needed for National Spring Clean 2010, Keep Scotland
Beautiful
Why not try residential volunteering? RSPB Volunteering Department
Shadow Ranger Scheme Forestry Commission
Environmental Education Volunteering, Gordon
Brown Environmental Education Centre
Something Different? Volunteer at a Zoo, Living
Coasts
Has the 'Credit Crunch' affected volunteering? CJS
CJS Focus on Trees and Hedges
In association with The Tree Council, for National Tree Week
Published: 23 November 2009
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Lead Article: Tree Council launches new phase of its Hedge Tree
Campaign
Hedgelink, an introduction
Hedgelaying, when and how, National Hedge Laying Society
Coppicing and pollarding – ‘cut and come again’ for trees! Small
Woods Association
British Hardwood Charcoal, a methodology, Woodland Skills Centre
Traditional Orchards as a Priority Habitat,
Orchard Project at The National Trust
Juniper – down the hatch?, Plantlife
Trees Under Threat? a look at some of the threats facing Britains
treestock, Centre for Forestry & Climate Change, Forest Research
Pancake Wood Challenge: a new teaching resource, Royal Forestry
Society
CJS Focus on Urban Greenspace
In association with The Land Restoration Trust
Published: 17 August 2009
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Lead Article: Healthy Wealthy and Wise, Land Restoration
Trust
Managing and maintaining the value of urban 'blue-space' , URSULA,
University of Sheffield,
Greenspace quality – a guide to assessment,
planning and strategic development, greenspace scotland.
Capital Growth, a new campaign supporting community food growing
spaces growing, Capital Growth
Grot Spots and Troubled Kids: How to make them shine,
Community Space Challenge
Urban Takeback, provision of sustainable habitats, Garnett Netherwood
Architects
Grounds for improvement, Learning through Landscapes
The BTCV Green Gym, BTCV Cymru
Helping with the problems of Greenspace Management, CMA Forum
Five suggestions for successfully managing urban greenspace, Matt
Chatfield, Naturenet
CJS Focus on Training:the importance of skills
In association with LANTRA
Published: 24 May 2009
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Lead Article: The importance of skills
Lantra
So you want a career change?
Worcestershire County Council
Countryside Training on the Edge, Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust.
Getting into Ecological Consultancy, Direct Ecology Ltd
Don't look away, please read on … the important of risk assessment,
Millhouse Training
Do degrees deliver? Ptyxis Ecology
Six Months in the Woods, Tom's Chairs
CJS Focus on Volunteering
In association with The Scottish Countryside Rangers
Association and the Countryside Management Association
Published: 9 February 2009
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ESCC Trainee Ranger Scheme, East Sussex
County
Council
Occassional Volunteering, Gerieant Davies, Cardiff Conservation Volunteers
Volunteering in the Countryside sector in Scotland, SCRA
There's a big welcome for Volunteers at Plantlife
ReVOLution: Youth Volunteering Festival, the National Trust
Volunteer Opportuntites at Somerset Environmental Record Centre, SERC
Volunteering in the Environmental Education Sector, Groundwork
RANGER magazine - Volunteering Special Edition, CMA
CJS Focus on Environmental Education
In association with The Field Studies Council
Published: 24 November 2008
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Lead Article:
Striving to
Deliver Opportunities within the Environmental Industry
Is the Climate right for Environmental
Education in our schools?, National Association for
Envrionmental Education
Earth Education - old hat or still a new
beginning?, Institute for Earth Education
A Year in the Life of an Education
Programme, Wildlife Trust, BCNP
Learning Outside the Classroom at Nell
Bank,
Nell Bank Outdoor Education Centre
Hard to reach or just misunderstood?,
PGL
The Residential Experience,
Allnatt Centres
Scottish Wildlife Education and The
Scottish SPCA, SSPCA
Twenty Years of Education in Exmoor
National Park
Wildlife Watch, The Wildlife
Trusts
Take a walk in the Park / Guiding lights,
Pembrokeshire National Park Authority
Pimp my Panel, ARC Creative
Designs
CJS Focus on Habitat management and Conservation with an
emphasis on Biodiversity
In association with The National Biodiversity Network
Published: 18 August 2008
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Lead Article: The importance of sharing
wildlife information
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World,
WWFUS
Cumbria – a Landscape for Natterjacks,
Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Landscape-scale restoration in the Flow
Country, RSPB
Restoring the Shimmering Rhos Pastures of
the South Wales Coalfields, Butterfly Conservation
Forest restoration in the Highlands of
Scotland, Trees for Life
Survey & Mitigation, Access Ecology
River Restoration and Habitat Enhancement,
River Restoration Centre
Species Identification and Recording,
ADIT software
Bird Atlas, BTO
Great Britain tackling non-native species,
Non-native Species Secretariat, Central Science Laboratory
Lark Rise Farm, Countryside
Restoration Trust
Biodiversity Benchmark, The
Wildlife Trusts
Soil Inversion Works, Landlife
CJS Focus on Rights of Way and Access
In association with The Institute of Public Rights of Way
Management
Published: 19 May 2008
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Lead Article: When is a path not a right
of way?
Significance of the Ramblers’ Association
for the countryside, Ramblers
Sustrans has established itself as a key
provider of access to the countryside with its National Cycle Network.
Managing the Lyke Wake Walk,
North York Moors National Park Authority
A Day in the Life of a Rights of Way
Officer
Mountaineers Do Their Bit for the
Environment, Mountaineering Council of Scotland
An Introduction to The British Horse
Society
Walkers with dogs: new approaches to
better management, Stephen Jenkinson
Personal Locator Beacons, Equine
Ramblers
Googling the countryside - web mapping
for the countryside , ExeGesIS
CJS Focus on Volunteering
In association with The Scottish Countryside Rangers
Association and the Countryside Management Association
Published: 18 February 2008
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Volunteering for Your Wildlife Trust, The
Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales
Speaking loud about volunteers,
SCRA
Volunteering for a
Healthy Lifestyle, CSV
Environment
CMA and the Volunteer
Toads on Road, Froglife
How volunteer tree champions make a
difference, The Tree Council
RSPCA: Mallydams Woods
Volunteering for Seawatch
Volunteering – spotlight on skills, LANTRA
CJS Focus on Trees and Hedges
In association with The Tree Council, for National Tree Week
Published: 19 November 2007
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Lead Article: Tree Wardens prove a growing presence in UK Towns &
Cities, Tree Council
Remembering the Great Storm of 1987, Forestry Commission
Why Urban Trees are Beneficial, Trees for Cities
Urban Trees Under Threat, Lovejoy London
Belfast's Urban Oasis, Conservation Volunteers Northern Ireland
Ancient trees - in a town near you, Woodland Trust
A new threat,Oak Processionary Moth, Forest Research
Supporting Woodfuel Development, Forestry Commission
Ignite - developing the woodfuel supply chain, Rural
Development Initiatives
Woodchip Fuel Calculators, Campbell Palmer Partnership
CJS Focus on Training
In association with Losehill Hall
Published: 20 August 2007
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Lead Article: Losehill Hall then & now
The Employers Viewpoint: Training, What's really needed?
Matthew Chatfield, Isle of Wight Council
The Participants View of Project Management run by Environmental
Trainers Network (ETN)
The Participants View of Brushcutters and Trimmers course run by BTCV
Scotland
The Participants View Acorn Ecology's Ecological Survey
Techniques course.
Instructing Rural Skills Courses, Lynher Training
An introduction to environmental training courses at Plas Tan y
Bwlch, Snowdonia National Park
The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Combating skills shortages
Apprenticeships, the dry stone walling
apprenticeship scheme, BTCV
Conservation Work Parties, John Muir Trust
So you want to be a Ranger? Aigas Field Centre
CJS Focus on Wildlife
In association with the Wildlife Trusts
Looking at Wildlife Conservation and Research
Published: 21 May 2007
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Lead Article: The umbrella
organisation of The Wildlife Trusts
Making the grade, Jordans Cereals
The National Biodiversity Network,
sharing information about wildlife.
The Anglesey Red Squirrel Project,
Friends of the Anglesey Red Squirrels
Mammals & Margins:
The benefits of Environmental Stewardship for farmers and wildlife,
FWAG
The
Plight of the Bumblebee - Habitat Management for the Great Yellow Bumblebee,
Bombus distinguendus. Bumblebee Conservation Trust
RSPCA Oiled Bird Research
Bloomin' Wild, Royal Horticultural
Society
The Spread of an Alien Ladybird, the Harlequin Ladybird Survey,
UK Ladybird Survey
Irish Hare Surveys 2006/7 Quercus
(Queens University Belfast)
CJS Focus on Seasonal and Volunteer work
In association with The Scottish Countryside Rangers
Association and the Countryside Management Association
Published: 19 February 2007
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The Importance of Seasonal Workers Game Conservancy Trust
What sort of Volunteer? The differences between occasional volunteers
(with South and West Wales Wildlife Trust), Mid-week volunteers (BTCV
Scotland), part time volutneers (Sheffield Wildlife Trust) and full time
volunteers (south west region of National Trust)
Seasonal work with The National Trust for Scotland
From Volunteer to Employed Warden, RSPB Aberthethy Forest Reserve
Enjoy yourself & help make a difference, National Trust working
holidays
A different way to gain valuable experience and find out which areas
you need to develop, Operation New World
CJS Focus on Trees and Hedges
In association with The Tree Council, for National Tree Week
and the Permaculture Association for their Year of the Tree
Published: 21 November 2006
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Lead Article: Plant the Ancient Trees of the
Future Tree Council
Lead Article: Permaculture - The relationship with trees Steven
Beesley
Living the Woodland Way Ben Law / CJS
Forest Gardening, Bangor Forest Garden Project
Pigs in Woodland Ray Harris, Holme Lacey College
Sustainable Management options for Landowners & Managers, Sylvan Environment
Ancient Tree Hunt, Woodland Trust
CJS Focus on Coast & Marine Environments
In association with The Marine Biological Association and
Marine Conservation Society
Published 21 August 2006
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Lead article from
The Marine Conservation Society
The Marine Biological Association
The Wildlife Trust's Marine Bill
Campaign
Time and Tide wait for no man....Coastal Projects, North Yorkshire & Cleveland
Life of a Volunteer on
Flatholm Island
Managing a coastline - for the benefit of man and wildlife ,
RSPB
CJS Focus on Recycling, Energy and Sustainability
In association with The Centre for Alternative Technology
Published: 22 May 2006
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Lead Article from CAT
What is an Earthship? Sustainable Communities Initiatives
Wild Waste Show, Northmoor Trust
The Problem with Waste from www.wastewatch.org.uk
WRAP Supporting innovation to reduce UK household waste
Sustainability - what does it mean? by CJS staff
CJS's Contribution
CJS Focus on Seasonal and Volunteer Work
In association with The Scottish Countryside Rangers
Association and the Countryside Management Association
Published: 20 February 2006
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From Volunteer to Staff, RSPB
Volunteering with The Scottish Wildlife Trust
Great Crested Newt Surveying, Heritage Environmental Ltd
All about SCRA
Countryside Sites Officer (Worcestershire County Council)
Interview, benefits of volunteering experience in obtaining a full time
post
The Cost of Volunteering by CJS with information provided by RSPB
The National Trust's Careership Training Programme
Lantra Apprenticeships
Special trees & woods in the Chilterns, Chilterns AONB
The CMA, introduction to and application form to join.
CJS Focus on Trees and Hedges
In association with The Tree Council, for National Tree Week
Published: 21 November 2005
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Lead Article: Planners Urged to insist on more trees, Tree Council
About Englands community forests, Red Rose Forest
So you want to work in forestry? Forestry Commission
Tree Wardens champion Britain's Trees, Tree Council
Coppicing at Rievaulx Terrace and Temples National Trust
Head Gardener
Creating Woodlands Naturally, Flora Locale
Trees and Biodiversity, Wildlife and Countryside
Services
Trees and High Hedges an introduction to the legislation, From the
office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Tree Protection Orders, The Tree Advice Trust
Scotland's Native Woodlands Under the Microscope, Forestry Commission
Scotland
CJS Focus on Country Sports
In association with The Game Conservancy Trust (now Game and
Wildlife Conservation Trust)
Published: 15 August 2005
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Lead Article:
Game Conservancy Trust, an introduction
Country Sports,
a definition
Wildlife and Angling in harmony at Wiltshire Wildlife Trust's
Langford Lakes Nature Reserve.
So you want to be a Gamekeeper?
Why Deer Management?
The Wild Trout Trust: restoring Britain’s rivers for the benefit of wildlife
The Allerton Project, how and why by the Allerton Trust
CJS Focus on Horticulture and Organics
In association with The Henry Doubleday Research Organisation (now Garden
Organic)
Published: 23 May 2005
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Lead article: HDRA association
RHS Chelsea Flower show
What is organic food? Soil Association
So you want to be a gardener? Head Gardener, Crathes
Castle, National Trust for Scotland
Converting your project to organic methods, Torbay Coast & Countryside
Trust
CJS Focus on Seasonal and Volunteer Work
In association with The Scottish Countryside Rangers
Association and the Countryside Management Association
Published: 21 February 2005
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Seasonal work - what do you do when there's no more work at Santa's
grotto Matthew Chatfield
About a career in Conservation, RSPB Volunteering
Department
Qualifications v Experience Niall Carson, CJS
BTCV Volunteer Officer Programme
Volunteering can be a great way to learn new skills & kick start your
career, Berks Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust
A volunteer prospective - a year out in Lake Vyrnwy, RSPB Volunteer
CJS Focus on Trees and Hedges
In association with The Tree Council, for National Tree Week
Published: 22 November 2004
The first edition.
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Lead Article: Stars to Launch National Tree Week Tree Council
So you think you want to be a Lumberjack? Royal Forestry Society
Day in the Life of a Hedgelayer, Paul Blissett
A well maintained hedge, Pete Turner
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