The Urban Tree Manual provides advice on selecting and procuring the right tree for the right place in urban areas. It also highlights long term issues of the threats to existing trees from pests, disease and climate change, and describes the benefits to the environment and for well-being that urban trees can provide.
The ability to accurately identify tree and shrub seedlings is invaluable to anyone with an interest in forests and woodlands and it is fundamental to practical woodland management. However, identifying seedlings in their first year of growth is not as straightforward as identifying adult trees and shrubs, as they are often strikingly different in appearance.
Forest […]
A range of online tools are available to support forest owners, managers, and decision makers to understand the impacts and risks from the changing climate to the forest and woodlands they manage.
Introduction
Forests can help mitigate climate change by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. They do this by absorbing carbon dioxide, using the carbon to produce sugars for tree growth and releasing the oxygen back into the air. As trees grow, they store carbon in their leaves, twigs and trunk, and in the […]
The Forestry Commission, Natural Resources Wales and the Forest Service owned or managed 27% of the total woodland area in the UK in 2018 (Table 1.3). This proportion ranged from 16% of the woodland area in England to 55% in Northern Ireland.
Table 1.3 Area of woodland in the UK by ownership, 2014-2018Ownership EnglandWalesScotlandNorthern IrelandUK
thousand hectares
FC/NRW/FS woodland1
2014
215
117
477
62
871
2015
215
117
478
62
871
2016
215
117
470
62
864
2017
214
117
469
62
863
2018
214
117
470
62
864
Private […]
The Forestry Commission, Natural Resources Wales and the Forest Service owned or managed 27% of the total woodland area in the UK in 2017 (Table 1.3). This proportion ranged from 16% of the woodland area in England to 55% in Northern Ireland.
Table 1.3 Area of woodland in the UK by ownership, 2013-2017
Ownership EnglandWalesScotlandNorthern IrelandUK
thousand hectares
FC/NRW/FS woodland1
2013
214
117
481
62
874
2014
215
117
477
62
871
2015
215
117
478
62
871
2016
215
117
470
62
864
2017
214
117
470
62
863
Private […]
A synopsis of the Lowland Habitat Networks in Scotland report (below), including examples of how networks of non-wooded habitats and their integration in different landscape settings could benefit landscapes in the Scottish Lowlands.
By Darren Moseley and Mike Smith.
Full report: Developing lowland habitat networks in Scotland: Phase 2 (PDF-3207K)
Related pages
Habitat networks
Landscape ecology
Integrated establishment systems for the […]
Forest Research maintains strong links to the other parts of the Forestry Commission when it comes to buying goods and services but has its own Procurement management resource that supports Forest Research’s particular procurement needs.
Quotations and tenders are sought on the basis of the following versions of the Forestry Commission’s terms and conditions:
If you have […]
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