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Diversity in forests is essential to conserve biodiversity and expand habitats, and to contribute towards enhancing landscape quality and recreation opportunities. In addition, introducing species and age diversity throughout a forest can increase their resilience to pests, diseases and fire, and extend economic opportunities. This Practice Guide offers advice and...
Douglas fir plays a particular role in the production of quality timber and is also important for other multipurpose forestry uses. Due to the extent of its natural range in Pacific north-west America, a range of material from natural populations and tree improvement programmes has been evaluated in field trials...
Progress reports (1973-79) by Forestry Commission GB and Forestry Division NI for the eleventh Commonwealth Forestry Conference 1980, covering for each organisation, chapters on – forest policy, forest management, services to management, harvesting and market planning, utilisation of forest products and forest products research, and a […]
Developments in remote sensing technology to reveal the historic environment by ‘seeing through’ the woodland canopy and its application in mapping, with direct relevance to forest management. By Peter Crow. Related pages Historic environment resources
Forest Yield: a PC-based yield model for forest management in Britain
Water is the most vital element of all natural resources and is essential to life.
The purpose of this leaflet is to present a summary of weed control information.
This Technical Note provides advice and information to forest managers, woodland owners and contractors on the operation of debuttressing standing timber prior to felling by mechanical harvesting machines. It reviews current training, guidance and practice, and provides information about the decision process to be taken on when and how to...
The underlying silvicultural principles which make up good thinning practice and guidance on applying thinning in the most common situations of forest management. By Gary Kerr and Jens Haufe. Related pages Continuous cover silviculture Integrated establishment systems for the uplands Management of upland native woodlands Woodland and habitat management publications
The conservation of biodiversity is an essential part of sustainable forest management.
A set of Pan-European Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management are compiled at intervals of 4 years for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) now branded as Forest Europe. Further information on the Forest Resources Assessment, including details of terms and definitions used, and results for all...
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