Eight Good Woods visits have taken place in the New Forest in the first year of the project. Project partners met with members of the local woodland community carrying out coppicing and thinning operations at Honeylake Wood, New Milton.
The Royal Forestry Society, Small Woods Association and the Sylva Foundation have formed a partnership – working together to support woodland owners in caring for their woodlands.
Sylva Scholar Louise Hill, studying the consequences of Chalara ash dieback in British woodlands (read more), is looking for some woodland sites in the south of Britain where she could set up some experiments. If you are a woodland owner, perhaps you could help her?
Sylva staff recently met with members of the RSPB Woodland and Reserves team at a small woodland reserve in Buckinghamshire. Discussions centred on how more active and productive management could improve the woodland for biodiversity as well as bringing in a small amount of income to offset running costs.
We’re pleased to annouce the launch of two major updates to the myForest service. The management planning template that links with Forestry Commission England is now live, and we have completely updated the mapping tools to create a simple yet fully functional online GIS.
Forestry Commission England have released an update, one year on, from its policy statement released in 2013. The Good Woods initiative was highlighted as one of the achievements by the sector.
Forest owners and agents will be aware by now that Forestry Commission England are shortly introducing a new management plan template. Join us and our partners at a series of workshops designed to introduce the plan. The workshops, organised by the Institute of Chartered Foresters, are taking place at venues across England and still have places available.
A programme, including a new grant scheme, has been launched to encourage woodland management in The National Forest. Charles Robinson has been . . .
A Good Woods visit to a Planted Ancient Woodland Site helps the owner on the long haul towards to improving the condition of her woodland. Jane will be completing a management plan and . . .
A Good Woods visit to Nonsuch Park, in the London Borough of Sutton, provides support to a community volunteer group, the Nonsuch Voles, and will help in mapping the woodland, creating a woodland management plan, and linking them to other community groups.