Graham Mole

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Graham Mole started in journalism the classic way – as a junior reporter on a local weekly paper, then moving into TV and eventually ending up as a producer on investigative programmes for the national ITV network. He then switched to covering the south of England, freelancing for national papers and magazines, running a local TV station and, along the way, bumped into Forestry Journal. Towards the end of his career, he specialised in features about individuals in the forestry business, learning an awful lot at the same time. Occasionally he would drag himself away from his shedquarters in the garden next to a large wood so he could fish the world-famous chalkstreams of the South for trout, which ended up providing material for his regular national magazine column on the sport. Graham died in 2021.

Graham Mole started in journalism the classic way – as a junior reporter on a local weekly paper, then moving into TV and eventually ending up as a producer on investigative programmes for the national ITV network. He then switched to covering the south of England, freelancing for national papers and magazines, running a local TV station and, along the way, bumped into Forestry Journal. Towards the end of his career, he specialised in features about individuals in the forestry business, learning an awful lot at the same time. Occasionally he would drag himself away from his shedquarters in the garden next to a large wood so he could fish the world-famous chalkstreams of the South for trout, which ended up providing material for his regular national magazine column on the sport. Graham died in 2021.

Latest articles from Graham Mole

TwentyEight Trees: A design for life

After leaving his old career behind to become a qualified tree surgeon, Tim Hill founded Wiltshire-based TwentyEight Trees – and he hasn’t looked back.

FutureArb: what’s in a name?

It’s all about protecting nature for Hampshire-based soldier-turned-tree-surgeon Ross Man, whose firm, FutureArb, is committed to green work practices.

Beavers taking a bite out of cricket

Beavers let loose in rivers across England are causing serious damage to woodland and putting production of cricket bats under threat, it is claimed. Graham Mole reports.

Testing times for British logs

We may have left the EU behind, but are we being conned over logs coming in from Eastern Europe? Graham Mole spoke to two British producers who think so – Richard Lyne and Tom Hams of Test Valley Logs.

Higher education

Being a training and LOLER manager for Hi-Line is a job that brings with it tremendous variety, and has taken Kirsty McNicol into the woods, into classrooms and even into prisons.

From the ground up

Josh Pritchard has built Hampshire-based tree surgeons GroundLord from a one-man-band to a 10-strong team and he puts it all down to taking a hard look at every aspect of the business and making it the best it can be.

Fallen&Found: Finding your way

Offering arboricultural consultancy, tree surgeon services, mobile sawmilling and bespoke furniture, the small team behind Fallen&Found really aim to do it all.

Married to the job

Keeping calm and carrying on has worked wonders for the husband-and-wife team behind tree surgeons Street & Parker over the years.