The Annual General Meeting of the Forestry Associations of Borgarfjörður will be held at the Borgarfjörður Museum House on April 29, 2025, at 6:00 PM.
Agenda:
– Board’s report
– Review of the association’s accounts
– Approval of the report and accounts
– Elections
– Membership fees
– Other items.
The Annual General Meeting of the Mosfellsbær Forestry Association 2025 will be held on Tuesday, May 6th at 8:00 PM in the hall of the Kyndill rescue team in Mosfellsbær, Völuteigur 23.
Agenda:
Following the formal proceedings of the annual meeting, representatives from the board of the Mosfellsbær Forestry Association will showcase highlights from the association’s 70-year history, as the association was founded in 1955 and is therefore celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.
Refreshments will be served after the annual meeting.
The annual general meeting of the Hveragerði Forestry Association will be held at the Garðyrkjuskólinn Reykir on Wednesday, May 7th at 8:00 PM.
Guest speaker: Ragnhildur Freysteinsdóttir, from the Icelandic Forestry Association, will talk about the association’s activities.
Coffee and refreshments will be served.
Everyone is welcome, members please bring guests!
The Rangæingar Forestry Association will hold its annual general meeting on Thursday, April 10th at the parish hall in Hella, at Dynskálar 8. The meeting begins at 19:30.
Agenda:
1. Regular annual meeting proceedings.
2. Other items.
Presentation: Improvement of birch. Þorsteinn Tómasson, plant geneticist, is the guest of the meeting. He has long been working on plant breeding, including Icelandic birch, and has achieved remarkable results.
Coffee refreshments provided by the association.
We warmly welcome new members – everybody welcome!
The Skagfirðingar Forestry Association will hold its annual general meeting on Friday, April 11th at 5 PM, which will be held in Miðgarður.
Agenda:
At the end of the meeting, staff from the Icelandic Forestry Association will give short presentations. Jón Ásgeir Jónsson, forester, titles his presentation „Among the Trees“ and Ragnhildur Freysteinsdóttir, environmentalist, will discuss Yrkja – the youth fund for land cultivation.
Coffee and light refreshments will be served.
The annual general meeting of the Eyfirðingar Forestry Association will be held at Hótel Kjarnalundur on Tuesday, April 1st at 19:30.
In addition to the usual annual meeting proceedings, Sigurður Arnarson will give a brief presentation on the work of Jón Rögnvaldsson, who was the first chairman of the association after its founding on May 11, 1930. The presentation is a prelude to a more comprehensive study that Sigurður is working on, titled „Mikilhæfur leiðtogi á sviði skrúðgarðyrkju og skógræktar“ (A highly capable leader in the field of horticulture and forestry).
The Annual General Meeting of the Akranes Forestry Association will be held at Stúkuhúsið on Monday, March 31, 2025, at 6 PM.
Agenda
1) Opening of the meeting. Election of meeting chair and secretary.
2) Minutes from the last annual general meeting.
3) Annual report of the Association.
4) Financial statements 2025.
5) Membership fee.
6) Amendments to bylaws – no proposal has been received.
7) Elections.
Intermission – Refreshments
8) Other items– including main projects of the association. –
Project list
The annual general meeting of the Hafnarfjörður Forestry Association will be held on Thursday, April 3rd at 8:00 PM in Apótekið, Hafnarborg, Strandgata 34. Entry from Strandgata.
8:00 PM – 8:50 PM
Coffee break
9:10 PM – 9:45 PM
See more on the Association’s website: skoghf.is and Facebook page.
The Forestry Encouragement Award 2025 was given at a ceremony in Kvikan, the cultural center of Grindavík, on the International Day of Forests, March 21st.
This is the second time the Award has been given. The Award is presented given annually to individuals, groups, companies, associations, or institutions that have worked selflessly for the cause of forestry in Iceland. The aim of these awards is to encourage forestry enthusiasts to continue their work and to draw attention to the diverse and valuable forestry efforts being carried out across the country.
Nominations for the Award were called for in January. A total of 20 nominees were received, from which a jury selected three candidates for online voting. The result of the vote was that Pálmar Örn Guðmundsson, chairman of the Grindavík Forestry Association, received the most votes and thus wins the Award this year.
The ceremony began with an address by Ásrún Kristinsdóttir, president of the Grindavík town council, who welcomed guests and briefly described the current situation in the town. Next, Hjörtur Bergmann Jónsson, chairman of the forestry farmers’ division at the Icelandic Farmers’ Association, took over and formally presented the award to Pálmar. As a prize, Pálmar received two beautiful bowls made of Icelandic birch, crafted by artisan Trausti Tryggvason, who is also the former chairman of the Stykkishólmur Forestry Association.
Pálmar has, on his own initiative, carried out important and selfless promotional work for forestry in Iceland through his YouTube channel Skógurinn (The Forest), where he has covered various aspects of forestry – individual tree species, forests, and forestry entities such as nurseries. Despite his hometown and the forests of the Grindavík Forestry Association being damaged due to the volcanic eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula in recent years, he has not let it discourage him. All work on the videos is done by him alone without the involvement of others. With his sincere and contagious passion for forests and nature, Pálmar sparks interest in anyone who discovers his videos, and it is particularly praiseworthy how diligent he has been in adding English subtitles to the videos, so that more people can enjoy them.
The awards are sponsored by the Icelandic Forestry Association, Land og skógur (Land and Forest), and the Icelandic Farmers’ Association (forestry farmers’ division).
Pálmar Örn Guðmundsson, recipient of the Forestry Encouragement Award 2025. Photo: EB
The office of the Icelandic Forestry Association will be closed on March 25-29, as the staff will be attending the annual Icelandic Forestry Conference in Hallormsstaður. We’ll be back on Monday March 31st, full of new knowledge!
Nýlegar athugasemdir