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:
What is continuous cover forestry? (PDF-81K)
Information Note 29
Transforming even-aged conifer stands to continuous cover management (PDF-88K)
Information Note 40
Field sheet (PDF-79K)
Monitoring the Transformation of Even-aged Stands to Continuous Cover Management (PDF-188K)
Information Note 45
Managing Light to Enable Natural Regeneration in British Conifer Forests (PDF-100K)
Information Note 63
Software
Software 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 Group | www.ccfg.org.uk |
| Prosilva | www.prosilva.dk |
| School of Environment and Natural Sciences - University of Wales, Bangor | www.senr.bangor.ac.uk/research/themes/fem/continuous_cover_forestry.php |
| Schoool of GeoSciences - Edinburgh University | www.geos.ed.ac.uk |
| Forestry at Aberdeen University | www.abdn.ac.uk/~for257/ |
| Selectfor Ltd | www.selectfor.com |
| Institute of Chartered Foresters | www.charteredforesters.org |
| International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) | www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10500/ |
| Forestry: An international journal of forest research | www.forestry.oxfordjournals.org |
| European Forest Institute | www.efi.fi/research/project-centres/conforest.html |
| Woodland Heritage | www.woodlandheritage.org.uk |
