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Find out how to complete a Woodland Condition Assessment (WCA) as part of a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier Agreement or as a standalone capital item.
Find out the minimum standards for a deer and mammal risk assessment for woodland creation and how to carry out the survey.
Check which trees are eligible under the Environmental Land Management (ELM) agroforestry action.
Sign up to Forestry Commission newsletters for updates, news, information and guidance. Find out how to unsubscribe or update your subscriptions.
Learn about the management options to protect trees against mammal damage, including: enhancing natural predation, fencing, tree guards, immunocontraceptives, lethal control and non-lethal control.
Learn how to protect trees from: roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), sika deer (Cervus nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), Reeve’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) and Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis).…
This guidance sets out the need to contact historic environment organisations during the development of forestry projects and provides template emails that proposers can use.
Find out about grants and other funding support for agroforestry on your farmland.
Find out how land managers can look after newly planted trees in areas where there’s been restocking due to pests and disease.
Learn more about protecting trees from the European hare (Lepus europaeus), mountain hare (Lepus timidus) and European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
Read about eligibility and what to include when applying for the woodland resilience supplement CWS5 through the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier offer.
You must read and agree to the terms and conditions set out in this document to apply for the England Woodland Creation Offer.
Find out how to apply for authorisation to fell, stack, transport or process spruce trees within the Ips typographus demarcated area (DMA).
Find a company authorised for handling wood and material affected by Ips typographus.
A closed grant that provided funding to improve, expand, automate or mechanise the production of trees and tree seed.
How you can protect your farming or forestry business from fraud and know what to do if you experience or suspect fraud.
This note sets out advice on how to plan and carry out forest operations in woodlands to minimise the possible impacts on red squirrels.
Read the agreement holder’s guide for agreements starting on or after 5 January 2023 until 31 December 2023.
How to identify tree damage by deer and grey squirrels.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2016.
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