Giants Grove - Data for the Future The worlds first forest management school was founded in the University of Giessen, the Holy Roman Empire, in 1778. For the majority of those almost 250 years the basic forest management tools were the humble pencil & paper. Data...
The Incredible Carbon Storage of Giants Grove The joint Crann – Trees for Ireland and Birr Castle Giants Grove Project at Birr, Co. Offaly is the largest Redwood Forest outside of the USA. Already in its fifth year, one thousand redwoods have been established amongst native...
The Giants Grove – Planted and Managed for Forest Biodiversity While sequoias are the ‘stars’ of the Giants Grove, the project is about so much more than just the Redwoods. The Grove, planted and managed for forest biodiversity, is an ecosystem that will continue to develop...
Phew! 2020 is over. While all our lives are changed dramatically in 2021. The virus had very little impact on the Giants Grove. I saw the site a lot less, and an interesting Trinity College University study had to be postponed, because of the lockdowns, but nature, life,...
The Giants Grove is a forest like few others, for many reasons. It is the largest Redwood forest outside of its native California, a gene-pool to protect the Redwood species from climate change, a symbol of the Irish diaspora, and a continuous-cover eco-forest that will...
