Back in March our partners CloudForest released a report on challenges in the UK’s small-scale timber supply chain. “Homewood bound? Challenges along the UK’s small-scale timber supply chain from forest to construction” delves into the issues across the wood-chain. A new blog now provides bite-sized highlights of some of the issues raised.
A new resource for Woodland Management Planning is now available to support myForest users in England. Whether you are a new woodland owner or further along the process, this support will underpin the entire planning journey and help you create a Forestry Commission approved Woodland Management Plan.
Continuing our outreach work, we have supported even more students through myForest, this time in Scotland.
Following the launch of the government-funded PIES project last year, we are pleased to announce the expansion of the project thanks to additional funding provided by Fores
The myForest team regularly provides support and advice to woodland groups across Britain. Last week, George Dennison (myForest Manager) and Paul Orsi (Director of Operations) hosted a webinar for members of the Community Woodlands Association looking at how they could use myForest to support their woodland management activities.
Paradise Wood in south Oxfordshire was planted by Earth Trust in the 1990s, as a research centre for hardwood tree and is a unique resource for learning and advocacy. Thanks to funding from Vastern Timber, Sylva Foundation and Earth Trust will be working together on a new mapping project, using Sylva’s myForest platform to develop an online UK Forestry Standard management plan.
We’re delighted to announce the development of a major new project. Working in partnership with the Forestry Commission and the Woodland Trust, the Sylva Foundation is delivering a Woodland Creation Test and Trial to support the development of Defra’s Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.
Environmental charity the Sylva Foundation has launched a major new version of a web platform and mobile app designed to help with the management of deer across landscapes.
From today both the Management Plan template and Felling Permissions application have been updated in myForest. If you have previously created a management plan or generated a felling licence application, the information and data entered will now be in these new templates.
myForest users can benefit from a new online system for generating felling licences