Tilhill Forestry Journals

The Tree Scribe - A Journal of Tilhil Forestry. Details:

First published in May 1977 with the last edition published in December 1994.

Editions 1 to 11 were edited by David Reade between May 1977 and June 1982.

Editions 12 to 30 were edited by Val Pettit between October 1982 to January 1992.

Editions 31 & 32 published in 1992 were edited jointly by Val Pettit and Barker Trident Communication.

Editors of editions 33 to 36 published in 1993 and 1994 are not known.

Edition 36 of 1994 was the last edition to be published by Tilhill Forestry. UPM, through its Shotton Paper plc subsidiary, purchased Tilhill Forestry (then known as Tilhill Economic Forestry) in 1996 from Booker Countryside. UPM subsequently sold Tilhill Forestry to BSW Timber Ltd. in a deal that was finalised on September 1, 2015. Currently Tilhill Forestry is part of the BSW Group which was acquired by binderholtz in 2022.

During the period from 1995 to 2015 Tree Scribe was replaced by several different publications, including Staff News, Countryside Chatter, the Output Newsletter and the Staff Bulletin, the latter being the first of the 'online' publications.