Gold for Dr Jo Clark: recognising an Herculean task

Dr Jo Clark, Head of Research at the Future Trees Trust, has become the first person for nearly five years to be awarded the Royal Forestry Society’s (RFS) Gold Medal for distinguished services to forestry. She is also the first woman to receive the award.

She received it for: “A Herculean task and one that goes on to a large extent ‘under the radar’, for it is future generations that will really benefit from Jo’s painstaking work. It is her...