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Supplementary guidance on the treatment of carbon finance as co-funding for woodland creation receiving grant-aid through the English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS).
Supplementary guidance on how Forestry Commission England handles EWGS business during the transition from EWGS (2007-13) to the CS programme (2014-20).
Find an explanation of what the Forestry Commission expects for the management of deadwood habitat through the Woodland Management Grant (WMG).
Learn about the different ways you can manage your woodland, the steps to create a woodland management plan, and the support and funding available.
Find insight and advice about timber production from other organisations.
Creating a larger, more connected woodland habitat.
A closed grant for managing and improving the ecological condition of woodland.
Hear from Max and Guy Irving who have planted a new 22 hectare woodland to grow their family business.
Supplementary guidance for sites felled due to Phytophthora under a Statutory Plant Health Order.
Find out how to notify the Forestry Commission if you plan to invoke the force majeure clause in your Forestry Commission grant.
A closed grant that helped increase and facilitate the use of home-grown English wood and wood fibre in construction.
This note will help inform the use of Historic Environment (HE) capital items and multiannual options available on woodland parcels in Higher Tier applications 2022 onwards (Agreement start date January 2023).
Find out which grants are available to farmers and land managers to reduce the impact of flooding.
Find out how to implement good biosecurity to protect trees and woodland
This Operations Note provides information about the steps Agreement Holders need to take where a Change in Management Control, including a Succession, will or is intended to take place.
How woodland creation can help biodiversity.
Farmers and land managers need to take action to avoid repaying grants for Environmental Stewardship (ES) or Countryside Stewardship (CS).
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2017.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started before May 2018.
Supplementary guidance for if you're claiming annual payments as compensation for taking land out of agricultural production to create new woodland instead.
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