Case Studies

Find out how landowners have assessed their sites for climate change risks and implemented new measures to help meet management objectives and increase resilience in the future.

The case studies range in size from small woodlands of three hectares to large forests of nearly 70,000 hectares, and many of the forests can be visited as indicated on the map.

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Climate-ready forestry at Queen Elizabeth Forest Park

Find out how this ‘climate-ready’ demonstration forest in central Scotland is preparing for increased risks of storms, flooding and landslides.

Risks: Flooding, Landslides, Pests/Diseases, Windthrow

Management Objectives: Conservation, Recreation, Research & education, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Managing a woodland with acute oak decline: Bell Coppice

Adaptation measures have helped enhance resilience to both pests and diseases and climatic stresses in this 80 hectare SSSI woodland in the Midlands.

Risks: Pests/Diseases

Management Objectives: Conservation, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Jeskyns mixed broadleaf climate adaptation demonstration

A community woodland in Kent has enabled the comparison between new two woodland areas planted in 2006; one of the areas was designed for the future climate.

Risks: Drought, Pests/Diseases

Management Objectives: Recreation, Research & education

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Bicentenary project: planning 200 years ahead in Gipps Wood

Pioneering private woodland owner Mr Sclater created a 3ha plantation in Sussex in 2017 that is designed be more resilient to the future climate.

Risks: Drought, Pests/Diseases

Management Objectives: Conservation, Timber production

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Demonstrating climate change adaptation in Alice Holt Forest

A range of adaptation measures were implemented on the public forest estate in Surrey to increase resilience to changing climate risk, including more frequent drought episodes.

Risks: Drought

Management Objectives: Carbon storage, Conservation, Recreation, Research & education, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Planning to reduce the future fire risk in Swinley Forest

Following a ten-day fire control operation in 2011, increasing resilience to wildfire became a priority for this large mixed forest in Berkshire.

Risks: Wildfire

Management Objectives: Carbon storage, Conservation, Recreation, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Transformation to continuous cover forestry at Clocaenog Forest

Low impact silvicultural systems have been adopted in an exposed site in northeast Wales to help reduce the risk of storm damage and other climate change impacts.

Risks: Pests/Diseases, Windthrow

Management Objectives: Conservation, Recreation, Research & education, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Land management planning in West Sutherland

Climate resilience and biodiversity conservation were core themes of a new land management plan, which includes peatland restoration and species diversification.

Risks: Drought, Flooding, Pests/Diseases, Wildfire, Windthrow

Management Objectives: Carbon storage, Conservation, Recreation, Research & education, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Sustainable forest management at Kinveachy Caledonian Pinewoods

To support biodiversity and resilience against a range of climate change risks, natural regeneration and deer control are among the pro-active adaptation measures now in place.

Risks: Drought, Pests/Diseases, Wildfire

Management Objectives: Conservation, Recreation, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Steep ground harvesting and landslide prevention: the A82 project

Replacing mature conifer stands with slow growing broadleaved woodland can help stabilise steep slopes and reduce windthrow, minimising the risk of landslides on the A82 in Scotland.

Risks: Landslides, Windthrow

Management Objectives: Slope stability, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Managing for dynamic coastal change at Tentsmuir Forest

Careful management measures are being used at Tentsmuir Forest and the neighbouring nature reserve to increase the resilience of the forest to several climate risks to this low-lying coastal area.

Risks: Drought, Flooding, Pests/Diseases, Windthrow

Management Objectives: Conservation, Recreation, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Woodland management planning at Queensberry Estate, Buccleuch

Queensberry Estate has a diverse forest managed for a range of objectives. Further improvements to species and structural diversity are reducing climate change risks.

Risks: Drought, Flooding, Pests/Diseases, Windthrow

Management Objectives: Conservation, Recreation, Timber production, Wildlife & biodiversity

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Climate-ready forestry at Queen Elizabeth Forest Park

Managing a woodland with acute oak decline: Bell Coppice

Jeskyns mixed broadleaf climate adaptation demonstration

Bicentenary project: planning 200 years ahead in Gipps Wood

Demonstrating climate change adaptation in Alice Holt Forest

Planning to reduce the future fire risk in Swinley Forest

Transformation to continuous cover forestry at Clocaenog Forest

Land management planning in West Sutherland

Sustainable forest management at Kinveachy Caledonian Pinewoods

Steep ground harvesting and landslide prevention: the A82 project

Managing for dynamic coastal change at Tentsmuir Forest

Woodland management planning at Queensberry Estate, Buccleuch

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