Professor Jim Lynch, chief executive of Forest Research, received an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours, one of five people from the forestry community to be recognised. He has served 17 years as programme co-ordinator of the OECD‘s programme on biological resource management.
Craig Heaney, who recently retired as head of the Forestry Commission‘s forestry business unit, was also awarded an OBE for services to forestry engineering. He is credited with introducing sophisticated Scandinavian harvesting equipment to the UK.
There were MBEs for Ronald Campbell, who has worked for the Forestry Commission for 44 years and was recognised for services to the community on the Isle of Mull; John Gulliver, head keeper in the New Forest, for services to wildlife conservation; and Mark Johnston, an aboriculturalist and research fellow at Myerscough College, Preston, for services to the urban environment.
