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These pages provide advice that is specific to England's woodlands and are intended to work alongside the expert advice available from the Great Britain and Forest Research web pages. This resource is intended to support the implementation of the revised 'UK Forestry Standard' and new 'Forest and Climate Change Guidelines'.
Visit http://www.forestry.gov.uk/climatechangeengland for more information.
For further advice about these web pages This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , adviser for woodland creation and resilience, Forestry Commission England.
The 2013 edition of the Journal that Woodland Heritage publishes each year is available to download.
- Click here to download a copy (7.5 Mb PDF);
- Also available this year is the latest Garthwaite Travel Bursaries / Pro Silva Europe Report from the Annual Meeting held June 2012; Click here to download a copy (0.76 Mb PDF)
- Click here to visit the Journal Downloads page;
The 2012 edition of the Journal that Woodland Heritage publishes each year is available to download.
- Click here to download a copy (5.6 Mb PDF);
- Click here to visit the Journal Downloads page;
We urgently need funds to research and combat ACUTE OAK DECLINE (AOD).
Also, please do use your networks to spread the word.
Click here to download our appeal in pdf along with a donation form
We need to act now! Or future generations will not forgive.
To read more about AOD: Forest Research Acute Oak Decline
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Woodland Heritage, P.O. Box 168, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 1XQ
by Lewis Scott
Leader article from the latest Woodland Heritage Journal (2010)
Will we be investing in the vital management and aftercare of the saplings to ensure that they grow into high quality timber trees with tall clean stems for future generations to inherit?
"What if Britain's most iconic and important broadleaf tree, the native Oak was to be reduced to a shadow of its current level?
Surely it is unthinkable that we could be without them?"
-An article about about Acute Oak Decline (AOD)- by Sandra Denman, Forest Research Scientist
Click here to dowload the pdf article
Forest Research (Forestry Commission) has published some guidelines about managing AOD:
Read more about Acute Oak Decline and download "Forestry Commission Practice Note 15": Forest Research Acute Oak Decline
This is a selection of what media and newspapers have written or broadcasted about the dangers and spread of Acute Oak Decline (AOD), and the urgent need for research and funding:
BBC West Midlands - Inside Out: Acute Oak Decline at Attingham Park, by Clive Dunn.
The article includes a 1:35 min video
Podcast BBC Radio 4 A Point of View, with Simon Schama: 'The tree that shaped Britain' [click the link to read the transcript in BBC News Magazine or click here to listen to the podcast in BBC iPlayer 07/05/2010]
Forestry Commisssion's Practice Note FCPN015 'Managing Acute Oak Decline', by Sandra Denman, Susan Kirk and Joan Webber
The Independent Disease threatens to fell Britain's historic oak trees
The Independent Now Britain's oaks face killer disease
BBC News Oak disease 'threatens landscape'
The Telegraph Mysterious new disease threatens oak trees
The Guardian New oak tree disease could 'change British landscape', experts warn
Mirror British woodlands hit by new killer disease
AOL News Oak disease 'could alter landscape'
Herald 24 Deadly disease confirmed in Hoddesdon woodland
The Prince of Wales has agreed to become Patron of Woodland Heritage in what is seen as a “tremendous boost” to their efforts to improve the management of woodlands in the UK.
“We are immensely proud to receive this recognition and support from His Royal Highness,” said Peter Goodwin, co-founder of Woodland Heritage.
“We see a synergy between the Prince’s views on the environment and the fact we support sustainable forestry,” he added.
Mr Goodwin said Woodland Heritage believed in vibrant, working woodlands which provide quality trees and timber.
“Woodlands need to have an economic value if they are to be cared for in the longer term,” he said. “Above all, for our woodlands to survive and flourish they need to be managed, harvested, processed and regenerated locally. In doing so, our most important, beautiful and renewable natural resource can be sustained for future generations to come.”
Woodland Heritage, said Mr Goodwin, seeks to unite tree growers with wood users and act as a vehicle for both wood users and consumers to ‘put something back’.
It supports uneven aged silviculture (continuous cover forestry) where appropriate and by doing so helps to maintain native wildlife and wider environmental benefits. Travel bursaries are used to garner new ideas from across the globe to enhance collective knowledge and help spread good practice in woodland management.