Helping people put down roots with woodland creation
...invites people to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”. As we move into the Jubilee year we encourage everyone to get involved and register their trees to the map on...
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Woods and water for climate change
...are intervention opportunities to enhance these benefits: creating informal flood storage features such as ponds and scrapes can increase floodwater storage. Less intensive restocking can improve soil health and water...
Tree-mendous news - Local Authority Treescapes Fund and Urban Tree Challenge Fund to launch again!
...to level up access to nature across the country, planting trees in socially deprived urban areas with low canopy cover, in proximity to healthcare and educational facilities. By requiring match...
Trees on farms: success stories for nature and people
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Eleanor Marks, Posted on:
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Climate change and resilience, Nature, Tree planting, Woodland creation, Woodland management
...signs that the integration of habitats and farming is benefitting local wildlife. While Newhouse’s main commercial enterprise is arable, Andy is working hard towards integrating trees into the farm system...
Tree planting at Silver Hill: four years later
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Shaun Purkiss-McEndoo, Posted on:
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Categories:
Tree planting, Woodland creation, Woodland management
...the young trees and it started to become a problem, which I had anticipated. The trees were getting to a good size but I didn't want to lose them underneath...
A greener future: how tree planting initiatives are transforming England's landscape
...projected to capture over 4,000 tonnes of carbon over the next century. Community involvement has been integral, with local residents participating in planting days and enjoying newly created walkways and...
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...
A coordinated effort: how we’re tackling the dual threat of deer and grey squirrels
...increasingly used across estates and in landscape-scale projects to reduce deer and squirrel impacts, whilst night vision helps deer managers increase their effectiveness within current legislation. Research into grey squirrel...
‘Behind the Scenes’ at the Forestry Commission: Managing Ips typographus….. five years on
...incursion (inset: breeding galleries in the bark) Although the beetle poses no threat to human health, it can have a serious impact on our spruce trees. They bore into wood...
Want to help protect our trees? Find out what you can do with simple biosecurity
...spread and/or introduction of tree pests, diseases, and invasive non-native species. It often surprises people how simple, inexpensive, and quick it can be to take these precautions, and what an...
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