Girdling at Bullens Wood – a management technique to thin trees
...sharp tool to cut through a tree’s bark to kill the tree without having to cut it down. An advantage of girdling is that the trees do not need to...
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Into the woods: resilience for the future
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Jon Burgess, Posted on:
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Climate change and resilience, Into the woods series, Tree planting, Woodland management
Join us for this month's 'Into the woods' blog by Resilience Officer Jon Burgess, who shares how silvicultural techniques used at a woodland in Devon has built resilience against the...
Into the woods: enhancing local history with woodland and green space
...to the vents hidden in the trees connected to mining shafts that remain underground. Links between the industrial past and the wooded present become obvious when you know what to...
Cracking down on illegal felling
...to increase them. There is also a greater incentive for unscrupulous people to look for loopholes in the law. We need to close them. The Environment Bill will put this...
5 tips for Environmental Land Management in-field agroforestry applications
...successfully integrating trees into your farming business. To be put in touch with your local AFWO, please email GRNationalteam@forestrycommission.gov.uk with your location and they will get back to you shortly....
Into the woods: the value of amenity woodlands
Join us for this month’s ‘Into the woods’ blog by Helen Townsend, the Forestry Commission’s Head of People, Landscape and Historic Environment. To mark Take a Walk Outdoors Day, she...
Why is biosecurity important to the health of our trees?
...introduced into the UK. The government has put in place rigorous controls to prevent introductions, but it's really important that we as individuals do as much as we can to...
Tree protection – thinking about risks and opportunities
...the winter, particularly after snowfall. Hares Hard winters can drive hares into woodlands resulting in localised damage to young, unprotected trees. This can take the form of cleanly bitten-off leading...
Tigers and hawks in our forests
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Kate Tobin, Posted on:
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Categories:
Ancient woodland, Nature, Tree planting, Woodland creation, Woodland management
...up on them by “whispering” – emitting echolocation calls 10 to 100 times lower in amplitude than other bat species, which allows them to get up to four times closer...
Why are forests and woodlands so good for our mental health and wellbeing?
...to connect the people to the trees. Would you like to plant trees to create a woodland of the future for people to enjoy? Read our Tree planting and woodland...
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