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Find out how to identify and manage ash dieback if you own or manage ash trees. This includes private tree owners, woodland owners, farmers and local authorities.
Find out about our series of sensitivity maps which indicate where there are likely to be fewer sensitivities to woodland creation in England.
An introduction to agroforestry including the benefits and definitions.
This document contains guidance on how to use the Forestry Commission map browser and Land Information Search.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
To help protect Britain's trees and woodland, a felling licence from the Forestry Commission is required to fell most trees.
How to identify common constraints and designations in your forestry project’s proposal area and what action to take in relation to individual constraints.
How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
Find information about the scheme, how companies can use woodland carbon units and how landowners can take part.
Find information on sustainable woodland management in England, including funding to maintain your woodland, and regulations you need to follow.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
Get information to help you plan, fund, plant and manage woodland in England, including resources on site preparation and tree protection to long-term management.
Find out how to kill trees on site using chemical treatments to prevent the spread of pests and diseases.
Find out how to import non-regulated firewood, such as logs and kindling, into England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain).
A detailed guide and a quick guide for using Felling Licence Online.
This page gives a checklist of actions that applicants must complete before submitting a forestry Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) application.
Use this guide and the templates to determine works within woodland supplement 1 for the control and management of deer.
This guide supports anyone who wants to plan, design and create new woodland in England.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
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