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    “Strengthening heart and mind”: Using woodlands to improve mental and physical Well-being
    Lead Author: Liz O'Brien
    In the United Kingdom, a number of efforts to improve people’s health and well-being focus on the value of trees and woodlands By Liz O’Brien. Article from Unasylva – Forests and human health. Issue 224 (Volume 57, 2006/2), a publication of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
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    Best Practice Guidance for Land Regeneration
    Lead Author: Forest Research
    Best Practice Guidance for Land Regeneration is a series of Guidance Notes based on research and practical experience in the restoration of brownfield land for woodland and urban greening.
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    The implications of transformation to continuous cover forestry systems for conifer timber quality and log supply in the UK
    Lead Author: Elspeth Macdonald
    Report on Scottish Forestry Trust-funded project to investigate implications for timber quality of transformation of uniform forests to irregular structures. Related pages Tree and Wood Properties Compression Wood Cell wall macromolecules and reaction wood (CEMARE)
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    Predicting the branching properties of Sitka spruce grown in Great Britain
    Lead Author: Alexis Achim
    Paper on a branching model for Sitka spruce. Related pages Tree and Wood Properties Compression Wood Cell wall macromolecules and reaction wood (CEMARE)
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    Consultation and community involvement in forest planning
    Lead Author: Paul Tabbush
    As part of Forest Design Planning, qualitative social research methods were used to describe and evaluate the participatory process developed in the New Forest. The process was followed in action at Cranborne Chase and North Dorset Forest District and interviews and discussion groups were held in 2003 and 2004. This report discusses in detail the […]
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    [Archive] Forest Research Annual Report and Accounts 2004-2005
    Lead Author: Forest Research
    This report is available to download here or to order in hardcopy from The Stationery Office (TSO) (Phone: 0870 600 5522; www.tsoshop.co.uk)
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    Consultation and community involvement in forest planning
    Lead Author: Paul Tabbush
    Research in Cranbourne Chase and North Dorset. By Paul Tabbush. For a hardcopy of "Consultation and Community Involvement in Forest Planning" (price £6) contact Joanne Davies.
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    A sort of magical place: people’s experiences of woodlands in northwest and southeast England
    Lead Author: Liz O'Brien
    This publication aims to give land managers, policymakers and all those with a wide interest in forestry a picture of how people relate to woodlands and the natural environment. To obtain a hardcopy of this report (price £10) contact Joanne Davies of Forest Research at Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey.
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    Terrestrial Umbrella: Eutrophication and acidification of terrestrial ecosystems
    Lead Author: Mark Broadmeadow
    The principal roles of Forest Research in this Defra programme were to provide expert advice and to deliver a range of site specific environmental, soil and vegetation-related parameters and data-sets required for the evaluation of the Critical Loads calculation methodology. This evaluation includes the testing and calibration of process-based dynamic models of soil chemistry. By Mark […]
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    Guide to using woodland for sediment control
    Lead Author: Tom Nisbet
    This guide describes the catchment approach that is being developed by a partnership of organisations in Cumbria in northwest England to control sediment inputs to Bassenthwaite Lake. It sets out the steps taken to identify the main sources of sediment and explores how woodland could help to alleviate the problem. By: By Tom Nisbet, Samantha Broadmeadow […]
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    [Archive] Forest Research Annual Report and Accounts 2003-2004
    Lead Author: Forest Research
    This report is available to download here or to order in hardcopy from The Stationery Office (TSO) (Phone: 0870 600 5522; www.tsoshop.co.uk)
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    Development and review concerning Forest Focus (PDF, 1.6 MB)
    Lead Author: Peter Freer-Smith
    Summary The European Community and the Member States are committed to implementing internationally agreed activities relating to the conservation and protection of forests. In this context it is in the general interest of the Community to develop the monitoring activities that have been established and run under Regulation (EC) 2152/2003 called Forest Focus and the proceeding […]