...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 shoots....
...use free mapping tools such as the Sylva Foundation’s My Forest system to create an application map, using their guidance on how to produce EWCO compliant maps. 5. Make sure...
...the 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...
...their resilience to future droughts. Many of the projects will also allow suppliers to produce more diverse stock, whether that be through investing in seed storage that allows them to...
...including wet woodland. As they’re incorporated into the soil they can lock away carbon. Grazing animals avoid mosses due to their low nutritional value. This makes them a safe habitat...
...oak that would produce around 1,300m3 of stem wood containing 364 tonnes of carbon (1,336 tonnes of CO2) in the same period.2 The difference in carbon (1,673 tonnes of CO2)...
...factories. An increase in demand for more wood to build more timber framed homes can initially be met by increased imports, mainly from Sweden, Latvia and Finland, where ‘super-sawmills’ can...
...desirable land use. The metric will be used in beta format for user testing and feedback before release of the full, finalised metric in June 2023. Read the new guidance....
...was to establish in Great Britain, it has the potential to cause significant economic and environmental damage to our forestry and timber industries. The science Examining bark panel samples for...
...trees within new developments, to give them the best chance of growing to maturity, contributing to nature recovery and climate resilience in our towns and cities. Creating new woodlands will...
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