...the Chatsworth Estate, to discuss their enterprises and highlight opportunities for making money from trees on farms. From grants to wood fuel and carbon credits to timber, the opportunities are...
...set centrally, but also to have an independent voice through the advisors. Much of the free advice and support that is already available fails to cascade to the farm level,...
...squirrel management, which if successful could be used elsewhere within mainland Britain to reduce invasive grey squirrel populations, protect and restore native woodland, and work towards the return of native...
...Keep it Clean! Never assume an area to be free of pests, diseases, or invasive non-native species. Many threats are microscopic or are very hard to spot. Sometimes it can...
...that imports 80% of its timber, we still need conifers, which grow fast, sequester carbon like nobody’s business, produce essential timber and fuel and grow in woodlands that also support...
...scheme is eligible for the grant. This then enables us to administer the payments which currently average £11,800 per hectare and have the potential to be as high as £19,500...
...risk pathways is through trade, which has increased significantly through globalisation of trade and travel over the last few decades. People often suggest that simply banning imports would be the...
...efficiency, new radial cutting techniques were tested for repeatability on mobile sawmills, ensuring they could be reproduced elsewhere in the UK. When coppiced, sweet chestnut re-grows multiple, straight lengths of...
...release of 10 case studies in the free Managing for Resilience report we published in July in partnership with the Forestry Commission is very timely, falling just after the launch...
...volunteers helped contribute to the known ranges of oriental chestnut gall wasp, oak processionary moth and elm zig zag sawfly. The Observatree project benefits from the knowledge and expertise of...
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