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Find out how the Forestry Commission supports you if you operate in woodland designated a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
Read how woodland creation can capture carbon, and how it can help your business.
Appeal against a grant decision, refusal of a felling licence, restocking and enforcement notices, or an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) enforcement notice.
Find out how to assess whether your site might be suitable for woodland creation by carrying out species and vegetation surveys.
A closed grant for creating native woodland or restoring plantations on ancient woodland sites near to the HS2 route.
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.
A woodland haven for people and wildlife.
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.
This document ensures a consistent approach to planning and assessing proposals for deforestation, and the wildfire risk resulting from those proposals.
Guidance on the Forestry Commission’s interpretation of trees and woodland for the purposes of felling licences and forestry environmental impact assessments.
Find out how to import non-regulated firewood, such as logs and kindling, into England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain).
Find out about pests and diseases that could be affecting your trees.
The 'climate matching tool' helps you consider which tree seeds to plant in light of the changing climate.
Guidance on restocking for owners and managers of woodland containing ash. An overview of considerations and signposts to appropriate sources of information.
Learn about the different ways you can manage your woodland, the steps to create a woodland management plan, and the support and funding available.
Find out how this small business is increasing its financial return through the sale of carbon units.
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…
Enhancing biodiversity, providing a recreation space for the local community and sequestering carbon.
How trees can support your nature recovery plans.
Examples of good practice tree and highway management with respect to trees growing within the curtilage of the highway.
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