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Learn how good edge design can create woodlands that fit well into the landscape, benefit management and resilience, enrich biodiversity and provide inspiring places for people.
Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as provide benefits to woodland owners and society.
Read the Forestry Commission's guides on how best to manage dog walkers on your woodland. This includes managing dog fouling and protecting wildlife from dogs.
Supplementary guidance for land managers who are responsible for individual and small groups of ash trees that are likely to be infected by ash dieback.
Climate change management guidance for landowners, foresters and farmers to strengthen woodland management and combat the effects of climate change.
Read this guidance if your Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) contains ash trees.
Find out about grants and other funding support for agroforestry on your farmland.
Guidance to help ensure cultivation for afforestation meets the minumum requirements of UKFS and ensures storage, sequestration and capture of CO2 is adequately addressed.
Find out what the lead facilitator and group applicants need to do for a group application in the tree health pilot (THP) scheme.
The Forestry Commission decision framework for determining when to convert woodland to open habitat, and when compensatory tree planting is required.
A brief overview of England's Community Forests including the support they can offer for tree planting and woodland creation.
Find out how sustainably managed woodlands can deliver benefits to the environment, people and the economy.
Information on Forestry Commission datasets and how to access them.
Find out how to import non-regulated firewood, such as logs and kindling, into England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain).
Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Find out how to apply for authorisation to fell, stack, transport or process spruce trees within the Ips typographus demarcated area (DMA).
This guidance has been jointly produced by Defra, Forestry Commission and Natural England to help ensure that proposals for afforestation identify and avoid important breeding wader sites.
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 information and support on how to comply with the biosecure procurement requirement for suppliers of plants and trees.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Find out how to fell diseased trees to slow the spread of certain tree pests and diseases and to protect the wider treescape – what to do if you get a statutory plant health notice (SPHN) asking you to fell larch, sweet ches…
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