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Useful information and links about continuous cover silviculture

An important aim of the Continuous Cover research programme is to communicate with target audiences and provide guidance to forest managers.  The following information may be useful.

Forestry Commission Information Notes

Forestry Commission Information Notes (FCIN) and freely available as PDF documents:

Cover of FC Information Note 29What is continuous cover forestry? (PDF-81K)
Information Note 29

Cover of FC Information Note 40Transforming even-aged conifer stands to continuous cover management (PDF-88K)
Information Note 40

Field sheet (PDF-79K)

Cover of FC Information Note 45Monitoring the Transformation of Even-aged Stands to Continuous Cover Management (PDF-188K)
Information Note 45

Cover of FC Information Note 63Managing Light to Enable Natural Regeneration in British Conifer Forests (PDF-100K)
Information Note 63

Software

Software to support the transformation to Continuous Cover ForestrySoftware to support transformation to Continuous Cover Forestry

Spreadsheet for calculating a target diameter distribution to guide management of uneven-aged stands (MS Excel-62K)

Further reading

If you would like to read more widely about transformation and continuous cover forestry the following references may be of interest.  If you have limited time then please see our short list.

Continuous Cover Forestry: A Selected Bibliography (PDF-850K)
(National School of Forestry)

Useful websites

Continuous Cover Forestry Groupwww.ccfg.org.uk
Prosilvawww.prosilva.dk
School of Environment and Natural Sciences - University of Wales, Bangor

www.senr.bangor.ac.uk/research/themes/fem/continuous_cover_forestry.php
tyfcoed.bangor.ac.uk

Schoool of GeoSciences - Edinburgh Universitywww.geos.ed.ac.uk
Forestry at Aberdeen Universitywww.abdn.ac.uk/~for257/
Selectfor Ltdwww.selectfor.com
Institute of Chartered Foresterswww.charteredforesters.org
International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO)www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10500/
Forestry: An international journal of forest researchwww.forestry.oxfordjournals.org
European Forest Institutewww.efi.fi/research/project-centres/conforest.html
Woodland Heritagewww.woodlandheritage.org.uk