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Enhancing biodiversity, providing a recreation space for the local community and sequestering carbon.
Climate change management guidance for landowners, foresters and farmers to strengthen woodland management and combat the effects of climate change.
Find out about the movement restrictions of spruce trees originating within the Ips typographus demarcated area.
A woodland haven for people and wildlife.
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.
Guidance on restocking for owners and managers of woodland containing ash. An overview of considerations and signposts to appropriate sources of information.
Find out what you need to do if you receive a Statutory Plant Health Notice (SPHN) for spruce trees infested with Ips typographus.
Find out how sustainably managed woodlands can deliver benefits to the environment, people and the economy.
Read how woodland creation can capture carbon, and how it can help your business.
Learn how the THP can help proactively manage spruce, including felling, restocking and maintaining newly planted trees within the proactive spruce removal area in the south-east of England.
Find out how land managers can look after newly planted trees in areas where there’s been restocking due to pests and disease.
Landowner David Harding shares the successes of his tree planting project and reflects on the lessons learnt.
Over two years, Mr Howes has planted a total of 18.54 hectares of new woodland on his farm.
The Forestry England Woodland Partnership is a leasehold scheme creating new woodlands across England in partnership with private and public landowners.
Find out how creating woodland can benefit your business, and how you can diversify your income, offset emissions, and benefit your land, crops, and livestock.
This note will help inform the use of Historic Environment (HE) capital items and multiannual options available on woodland parcels in Higher Tier applications 2022 onwards (Agreement start date January 2023).
Infographic illustrating the top GB ports and associated top international trading supply regions, where non-compliant wood-based material has been intercepted.
Find out how to notify the Forestry Commission if you plan to invoke the force majeure clause in your Forestry Commission grant.
This note sets out advice on how to plan and carry out forest operations in woodlands to minimise the possible impacts on red squirrels.
Find out about the benefits that tree planting and woodland creation bring to water management and water quality.
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