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Learn how Cabilla Manor Farm used woodland creation to build a resilient business model.
Learn more about protecting trees from the European hare (Lepus europaeus), mountain hare (Lepus timidus) and European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Find out about priority habitats and species, the value of ancient and native woodland and when it's appropriate to remove trees to restore open habitats.
Find out how to improve permanent access and infrastructure at woodlands you manage.
Guidance on restocking for owners and managers of woodland containing ash. An overview of considerations and signposts to appropriate sources of information.
Find out the minimum standards for a deer and mammal risk assessment for woodland creation and how to carry out the survey.
How the Forestry Commission will apply the 2024 rate uplifts to England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) applications and agreements.
How to use the optional Countryside Stewardship monitoring report and photographic monitoring report templates.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2016.
Steps farmers and land managers must take before applying for Countryside Stewardship on common land and shared grazing.
These example landscape character appraisals will help you develop your own woodland creation design plan.
How you can protect your farming or forestry business from fraud and know what to do if you experience or suspect fraud.
Supplementary guidance on the treatment of larch species when processing felling applications through the Forestry Commission.
How to request alternative felling permissions and/or restocking conditions on an approved felling licence from the Forestry Commission.
You must read and agree to these terms and conditions to apply for the local authority grant funding for an oak with oak processionary moth grant.
Read how a bareroot tree and hedging nursery used funding from the Tree Production Capital Grant to create a sustainable farming business.
Read how woodland creation can capture carbon, and how it can help your business.
Natural colonisation is the process by which trees colonise new ground from existing local sources. This can happen through seed which has been dispersed by birds, mammals, wind or gravity, or by vegetative colonisation wher…
Find out what you need to do if you receive a Statutory Plant Health Notice (SPHN) for spruce trees infested with Ips typographus.
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