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Find out how landowners have assessed their sites for climate change risks and implemented new measures to help meet management objectives and increase resilience in the future.

The case studies range in size from small woodlands of three hectares to large forests of nearly 70,000 hectares, and many of the forests can be visited as indicated on the map.

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1. Climate-ready forestry at Queen Elizabeth Forest Park 
1. Climate-ready forestry at Queen Elizabeth Forest Park 
Find out how this ‘climate-ready’ demonstration forest in central Scotland is preparing for increased risks of storms, flooding and landslides.
2. Managing a woodland with acute oak decline: Bell Coppice
2. Managing a woodland with acute oak decline: Bell Coppice
Adaptation measures have helped enhance resilience to both pests and diseases and climatic stresses in this 80 hectare SSSI woodland in the Midlands.
3. Jeskyns mixed broadleaf climate adaptation demonstration
3. Jeskyns mixed broadleaf climate adaptation demonstration
A community woodland in Kent has enabled the comparison between new two woodland areas planted in 2006; one of the areas was designed for the future climate.
4. Bicentenary project: planning 200 years ahead in Gipps Wood
4. Bicentenary project: planning 200 years ahead in Gipps Wood
Pioneering private woodland owner Mr Sclater created a 3ha plantation in Sussex in 2017 that is designed be more resilient to the future climate.
5. Demonstrating climate change adaptation in Alice Holt Forest
5. Demonstrating climate change adaptation in Alice Holt Forest
A range of adaptation measures were implemented on the public forest estate in Surrey to increase resilience to changing climate risk, including more frequent drought episodes.
6. Planning to reduce the future fire risk in Swinley Forest
6. Planning to reduce the future fire risk in Swinley Forest
Following a ten day fire control operation in 2011, increasing resilience to wildfire became a priority for this large mixed forest in Berkshire.
7. Transformation to continuous cover forestry at Clocaenog Forest
7. Transformation to continuous cover forestry at Clocaenog Forest
Low impact silvicultural systems have been adopted in an exposed site in northeast Wales to help reduce the risk of storm damage and other climate change impacts.
8. Land management planning in West Sutherland
8. Land management planning in West Sutherland
Climate resilience and biodiversity conservation were core themes of a new land management plan, which includes peatland restoration and species diversification.
9. Sustainable forest management at Kinveachy Caledonian Pinewoods
9. Sustainable forest management at Kinveachy Caledonian Pinewoods
To support biodiversity and resilience against a range of climate change risks, natural regeneration and deer control are among the pro-active adaptation measures now in place.

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