Search results for: Forest Management

The page summarises a pilot project by Forest Research to find out how the process of commissioning, doing and communicating social research affects policy, planning, practice and outcomes within the Forestry Commission.

Research to assess best practice in M&E, and provide models to ensure the findings of M&E are assimilated and applied in ways that help make the Forestry Commission and its partners more responsive, adaptive and sustainable

Research projects exploring governance of community woodlands and forests

The page summarises outputs from Forest Research’s studies of public involvement and engagement in forest planning and design.

Use of European silver fir in forestry re-assessed Large-scale use of European silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) was discounted in the mid-twentieth century. A recent paper by Forest Research scientists Gary Kerr, Victoria Stokes, Andrew Peace and Richard Jinks in the European Journal of Forest Research challenges that assumption and,...

A selection of publications, reports and standards relating to sustainability of biomass

A history of Cynwyd forest containing a general description of the forest, silviculture, and appendices.

In this bulletin an attempt is made to indicate which kinds of poplar it is advisable to cultivate and how they should be planted and treated with a view to the economic production of timber.

Farmers are being encouraged to grow trees on surplus agricultural land as part of government policy effected through the Farm Woodland Scheme. The efficient production of timber is profitable, providing raw material for industry, yet it does not preclude other important objectives such as landscape design, amenity considerations, game management...

This Bulletin explains the taxation of woodlands for the benefit of woodland occupiers (and their advisers). Part 1 deals with income tax and corporation tax following the major changes to the taxation of commercial woodlands made by the Finance Act 1988. Part 2 deals with the application of capital gains...

This booklet is written for anyone and everyone with an interest in Scotland’s trees, woods and forests.

This Booklet describes the species named in an Arboriculture Research Note on eucalypts in Britain by Evans (1980) plus a few others, and the principal species grown in Ireland referred to by Mooney (1960). The most successful species are from areas of temperate climate in Australia and are relatively frost...