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Welcome to IFG FYI: the official podcast of Idaho Forest Group. We’re here to talk about forests, lumber, conservation, workforce development—and the people behind it all. Whether you're in the industry or just curious about how wood gets from forest to frame, we've got stories, insights, and a few laughs along the way. Let’s dive in.

Locked in ice for more than twenty thousand years, the lands that now make up Britain and Ireland were some of the last settled by humans. The earliest people, Mesolithic hunter-gatherers like Cheddar Man, arrived around eleven thousand years ago to find dense forests. While they lived lightly, they did introduce fire, which they used to create clearings, and this was the beginning of the reshaping of Britain’s forests.