How do we manage insect pests in forestry? This PhD project aims to evaluate current science and practise and develop and test new and improved methods in order to enhance integrated pest management in the industry.
It is estimated that 74% of all softwood removals from private sector woodlands were harvested in Scotland, 17% in England, 9% in Wales and the remainder in Northern Ireland in 2018 (Table 2.2).
There has been an overall increase in the level of UK private sector softwood removals in the last decade.
Table 2.2 Private sector softwood removals by […]
Our legal obligations
Forest Research as part of the Forestry Commission is a public body with responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010.
The Act requires public bodies to have due regard to the need to:
Our Annual Monitoring Reports show how we fulfil, and intend to fulfil, our legal obligations.
The Act also requires us to publish an annual […]
This booklet contains a summary of statistics about woodland and forestry. The complete statistics for 2017 are available on our forestry statistics web page.Please note – the printed version of this document is an A2 sheet folded to A6. The PDF of the document is set to print at A3 therefore some of the pages […]
This page summarises research and outputs from the ‘Expected climate change and options for EU silviculture’ (ECHOES) project, funded by the EU-funded COST programme.
A collaborative initiative between sixteen of Scotland’s leading research and higher education institutions undertaking work on climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy.
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