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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.
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 land managers can look after newly planted trees in areas where there’s been restocking due to pests and disease.
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 what you need to do if you receive a Statutory Plant Health Notice (SPHN) for spruce trees infested with Ips typographus.
Forestry Commission guidance on design techniques, processes and how to document forest management plans.
How the Forestry Commission will apply the 2024 rate uplifts to England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) applications and agreements.
This note explains the rules for regulated firewood entering Great Britain.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started before August 2019.
These example landscape character appraisals will help you develop your own woodland creation design plan.
Find out what you can do to prevent or help minimise the introduction, establishment, spread and impacts of tree pests and diseases in the UK.
Learn about the management options for trees and woodland in the landscape, including: felling, shelterwood, overstocking and diversifying tree species.
The 'climate matching tool' helps you consider which tree seeds to plant in light of the changing climate.
Supplementary guidance offering an overview of those priority open habitats most likely to need consideration during the planning and assessment of woodland creation proposals.
Guidance on restocking for owners and managers of woodland containing ash. An overview of considerations and signposts to appropriate sources of information.
Find out about the movement restrictions of spruce trees originating within the Ips typographus demarcated area.
The eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is a serious pest of spruce. There are exemptions and restrictions for planting spruce in the demarcated area.
Find out about the many benefits that trees can bring to your land and the financial and expert support you can get from the Forestry Commission.
Read the latest plant health news from the Forestry Commission. Sign up to the plant health newsletter to receive up-to-date forestry trade news.
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