...industry supplying raw material essential to our response to coronavirus. Despite the outbreak, machine operators continue to harvest and hauliers continue to move roundwood from roadside to mill. Wood processors...
...cold winter months. It can be hard to know where to start so we’ve put together our top 5 tips for managing your woodland this Autumn. 1. Check your tree...
...elusive – form intricate relationships with the trees around them, becoming part of a woodland’s living story. In this blog, I explore four influential woodland mammals, consider how their presence...
...and included the development of a digital woodland suitability mapping tool. The tool draws on layers of geographic information to identify influencers for woodland planting. This removed all land with...
...line wire. In other areas, instead of plastic netting, we’ve used high-tensile stock fencing. I'm quite happy to think that we'll be able to take that down once the trees...
Chris Watson, Woodland Resilience Adviser, explains how sustainable woodland management, underpinned by timber income, is crucial to ensuring our woodlands continue to thrive. In this blog, Chris invites Nature Recovery...
...want to provide access to design their woods for people to enjoy. Forestry England continue to break down barriers for visitors and welcome everyone into the nation’s forests. This includes:...
...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...
...canopy will become increasingly sparse and thin. For more information and resources on how to identify ash dieback, you can visit Observatree’s ash dieback page, or watch How to identify...
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