5 tips for managing your woodland this autumn
5 tips for managing your woodland this autumn
MacBradan Bones is a Nature Recovery Advisor at the Forestry Commission. Here he shares his tips for managing your woodland in autumn.
The role of timber in sustainable woodland management
Chris Watson, Woodland Resilience Adviser, explains how sustainable woodland management, underpinned by timber income, is crucial to ensuring our woodlands continue to thrive. In this blog, Chris invites Nature Recovery Policy Advisor, Kate Tobin, to highlight the benefits trees and …
A year of growth: tree planting rates hit their highest level in over 20 years
Richard Chapman, Deputy Director of Defra’s Nature for Climate Fund Tree Programme, highlights the latest annual statistics, what has been achieved over the past year and what is to come. Yesterday, the Forestry Commission published their latest set of Provisional …
Amphibians in early summer: their journey from water to land
Emily Robinson, Content Officer at Forestry Commission, shares what amphibians are doing in woodlands throughout the summer and discusses various woodland management actions you can take to support them. When most people think of amphibians, they picture frogs sitting on …
A greener future: how tree planting initiatives are transforming England's landscape
Richard Chapman, Deputy Director of Defra’s Nature for Climate Fund Tree Programme, highlights some of the tree planting initiatives happening from organisations across England, showing how we can work together for a greener future.
Forests with Impact: growing trees, changing lives
James Bickley, the Forestry Commission’s Local Partnership Adviser for the North West and West Midlands, shares details of a new, life changing initiative. One that creates training opportunities and a chance for prisoners to rebuild their future, while boosting UK tree production.
How Woodland Heritage is building a thriving UK wood culture
Annabel Stones, Engagement Manager at Woodland Heritage, explains how the charity is striving to build a thriving UK wood culture by championing the good use of home-grown timber from sustainable, productive woodlands.
The elusive mammals of our woodlands
Emily Robinson, Content Officer at Forestry Commission, looks at four mammals that contribute to forest ecosystems and discusses how balanced woodland management can support both wildlife conservation and forestry objectives.
Into the woods: finding the cows among the trees
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Rachel Harries, Posted on:
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Categories:
Ancient woodland, Into the woods series, Woodland management
Rachel Harries is the Forestry Commission’s Marketing and Communications Manager. For this month's 'Into the woods' blog, she writes about the role cattle play in her local woodland.
To plant, or not to plant, that is the tree question
Paul Brannen is the Director of Public Affairs at the Confederation of Timber Industries and author of Timber! How wood can help save the world from climate breakdown (Agenda Publishing 2024). Here he explains the need for home-grown softwood and hardwood timber for an expanding bioeconomy.
How to help young trees survive prolonged hot dry weather
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Chris Watson, Posted on:
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Categories:
Climate change and resilience, Tree planting, Woodland creation
Chris Watson, Forestry Commission Woodland Resilience Advisor, looks at the effects of prolonged hot and dry weather on trees and what you can do to help them survive.
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