...objectives to use the tools available to them to create new woodlands and manage existing ones with resilience in mind. Simply bringing neglected woodlands back into management is a good...
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...various surfaces like leaves, tree bark, mosses, soil, and rocks. They help in soil production by breaking down rocks into smaller particles. And birds like long-tailed tits use lichens to...
...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...
...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 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...
...industry for decades to come. Ride with timber stacks on each side in a conifer woodland at Whinfell How EWCO and financial incentives support conifer woodland Back to the here...
...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...
...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...
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