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  • Publication

    [Archive] Ploughing of forest soils (FC Leaflet 71 – 1984)

    This Leaflet gives practical recommendations for ploughing forest soils in Great Britain.

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    Treescape Management

    Find out more about the ongoing research that aims to enhance existing woodlands.

  • Tool and Resource

    2017 – Certification

    Forest certification assesses forest management practices against an agreed standard and awards a label to those forest products that meet the standard. In order for products to achieve certification, both forest management practices and the Chain of Custody, which tracks timber from forest to retail outlet, must be […]

  • Tool and Resource

    UK-Grown Timber Certification

    Forest certification assesses forest management practices against an agreed standard and awards a label to those forest products that meet the standard. In order for products to achieve certification, both forest management practices and the Chain of Custody, which tracks timber from forest to retail outlet, must be […]

  • Tool and Resource

    Invasive species – practical considerations

    Practical considerations for urban greenspace sites with regards to colonisation by particular invasive species

  • Publication

    Converting planted non-native conifer to native woodlands: a review of the benefits, drawbacks and experience in Britain

    Lead Author: Nadia Barsoum

    Planted forests of non-native conifers make up around 36% of Britain’s total wooded area. Increasing the area of native woodlands – including converting non-native conifer to native woodland where appropriate – is an aim of the UK Forestry Standard Guidelines on Biodiversity. It is unclear how much conversion is being...

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    Programme 4 Resource assessment and sector monitoring

    Summary of Programme The programme will pursue innovative approaches to forest inventories, data acquisition, high-quality forestry statistics and forest modelling in support of forest policy and practice.  New methods will be developed and integrated to inform choices on forest capital. Sustainable forest management is only possible with the appropriate data...

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    [Archive] Guide to upland restocking practice (FC Leaflet 84 – 1985)

    This Leaflet provides practical advice to forest managers on all the important aspects of upland restocking practice.

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    [Archive] Production and use of tubed seedlings

    Lead Author: Alan J. Low

    The production and use of tubed conifer seedlings in Britain have been studied between 1968 and 1973 in an extensive research and development programme based initially on Canadian practice. Results from the many nursery and forest experiments are described and form the basis for practical recommendations (see Chapter 6) on...

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    Technical Development Services: Land reclamation

    Technical Development has been involved in land restoration operations since the 1990s, when complete cultivation techniques and use of sewage sludge were being developed by Forest Research. In 2009 TD resumed work on land reclamation prompted by the interest of FC Scotland in regenerating brown-field land as a component of...

  • Tool and Resource

    Ancient woodland

    Research projects and issues relating to the management of ancient woodland

  • Publication

    [Archive] Journal of the Forestry Commission (No.33)

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission

    The Forestry Commission Journal was introduced as a way to communicate information on a wide range of topics which could not be communicated through ‘ordinary official channels’, and was intended to be a means of exchanging the opinions and experiences of all members of the staff. This thirty-third Journal includes...