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Read this guidance if your Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) contains ash trees.
Supplementary guidance on how to manage woodland open space for wildlife.
This guidance explains how to consider the historic environment when developing and implementing forestry projects in England.
This document ensures a consistent approach to planning and assessing proposals for deforestation, and the wildfire risk resulting from those proposals.
Information on Forestry Commission datasets and how to access them.
A closed grant that helped increase and facilitate the use of home-grown English wood and wood fibre in construction.
Find out how to improve permanent access and infrastructure at woodlands you manage.
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.
The benefits of woodland creation on farmland.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that start on 1 January 2019.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2020.
Find insight and advice about timber production from other organisations.
Read about the family farm financial case study, to help understand woodland creation financials on a 10 hectare site.
Practical guidance on mitigating deer impacts in woodlands and what to consider when planning and assessing woodland proposals.
Read this woodland creation case study on how woodlands can support a local authority with their net zero plans.
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…
Find out what you need to do if you receive a Statutory Plant Health Notice (SPHN) for spruce trees infested with Ips typographus.
Supplementary guidance on undertaking stakeholder engagement before you submit your woodland management plans (WMP).
Read how woodland creation can capture carbon, and how it can help your business.
How woodland creation can help biodiversity.
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