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  • Tool and Resource

    Training and support for ESC

    Training and support for ESC

  • Publication

    Using DNA barcoding and metabarcoding to detect species and improve forest biodiversity monitoring

    Lead Author: Nadia Barsoum

    Growing threats to biodiversity from pressure of land use, climate change, and invasive pests and diseases highlight the importance of obtaining accurate baseline measurements of current forest biodiversity, as well as improved monitoring to detect early signals of change. Developments in molecular techniques have advanced to the stage that there...

  • Research

    Will a shift to continuous cover forestry (CCF) help reduce flooding?

    How the small-scale nature of silvicultural practices under continuous cover forestry may favour those factors that help to reduce flood flows

  • Publication

    Timber Measurement

    Lead Author: Ewan D Mackie

    Timber measurement was first published in 1983 as Booklet 49. Its punchy, practical style proved popular with practitioners trying to work out how to take basic measurements on trees and timber and apply standard forest mensuration procedures in the field. This revised edition has been produced primarily to achieve consistency...

  • Publication

    [Archive] Wildlife conservation in woodlands

    Lead Author: R.C. Steele

    The aim of this Booklet is to show how woodlands managed mainly for wood production can be improved as habitats for wildlife. It is concerned with identifying those features of woodlands which promote wildlife conservation and suggesting how these features can be maintained or introduced by management. It suggests that...

  • Publication

    [Archive] The management of red deer in upland forests

    Lead Author: P.R. Ratcliffe

    This Bulletin is primarily concerned with the management of resident populations of red deer in commercial forests, and gives practical prescriptions for deer management based upon sound data collection and scientific method. All such prescriptions must be aimed at particular, well-defined deer populations occupying discrete ranges. There is an important...

  • Publication

    [Archive] Lichens in southern woodlands

    Lead Author: K. Broad

    A working knowledge of lichen ecology is important to most foresters. The study of lichens can reveal a good deal of important information about the age, health and management history of the woodlands where they are found – whether it is ‘ancient' woodland, for example, or the prevalence of atmospheric...

  • Tool and Resource

    Short rotation coppice establishment

    Practical considerations and benefits of greenspace for short rotation coppice and woodfuel establishment

  • Publication

    Publications on integrated management of forestry operations

    Publications about integrated management issues relevant across a wide range of forest operations with recommendations and best practice guidance.

  • Tool and Resource

    2016 – Certified woodland area

    Certified woodland in the UK has been independently audited against the UK Woodland Assurance Standard. Forestry certification schemes are owned by international non-governmental organisations and exist to promote good forest practice. They offer product labels to demonstrate that wood or wood products come from well-managed forests. Figures for certified woodland...

  • Publication

    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forest civil engineering

    Lead Author: Alan Dickerson

    The management of forests and woodlands requires an effective road network to provide access for the machinery required to plant and harvest trees and extract timber and wood products. Roads are also used by visitors for access and activities such as cycling and mountain biking. Forest roads and bridges must...

  • Tool and Resource

    Establishment Management Information System (EMIS)

    The EMIS decision support system provides guidance for forest managers by matching species to site factors and by highlighting the most appropriate silvicultural establishment strategies.