The Forestry Commission is responsible for protecting and expanding Britain’s woods and forests and for managing nearly 1 million hectares of public forest.

Forestry is a non-ministerial department, supported by 2 agencies and public bodies.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

Documents

Our announcements

  1. Countryside Stewardship grants soon to open for applications

    • Press release

  2. Big Tree Plant's millionth tree planted

    • News story

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Our consultations

  1. Official Statistics: proposed changes to Defra statistics

    • Closed consultation

See all our consultations

Our publications

  1. Countryside Stewardship: Higher Tier manual

    • Guidance

  2. Countryside Stewardship: Mid Tier (including water quality capital items) manual

    • Guidance

See all our publications

Our statistics

  1. Forestry Statistics 2016 edition

    • National Statistics

  2. Forestry Facts & Figures 2016 edition

    • National Statistics

See all our statistics