...To support this momentum, we’re investing in people by funding apprenticeships to build the skills we need to plant and care for our woodlands, now and into the future. The...
...a change in that. Not only will the defendant need to replant the trees, but they need to maintain those trees for 10 years too. It’s fantastic to see the...
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...
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...
Ian Everard is a Field Manager in the Yorkshire and North East team and has been in forestry for 43 years. Ian talks about his journey into forestry, what inspired...
...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...
...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....
...to be collected in a mixed woodland in the Forest of Dean. Crown copyright Fostering innovation The timber industry today combines traditional practices with modern innovations to tackle contemporary challenges...
...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...
...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...
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