Research to assess best practice in M&E, and provide models to ensure the findings of M&E are assimilated and applied in ways that help make the Forestry Commission and its partners more responsive, adaptive and sustainable
Study modelling silvicultural options with Sitka spruce showing how transformation to continuous cover forestry can be a good economic option compared with clearfelling and replanting.
This is accompanied by an Analysis spreadsheet (MS Excel®-3813 KB) that enables practitioners and policymakers to change input costs, product specifications, roadside prices and the discount rate to suit their local […]
The underlying silvicultural principles which make up good thinning practice and guidance on applying thinning in the most common situations of forest management.
By Gary Kerr and Jens Haufe.
Related pages
Continuous cover silviculture
Integrated establishment systems for the uplands
Management of upland native woodlands
Woodland and habitat management publications
By Helen McKay (Ed.)
This review updates the Hardcastle review (2006) of the environmental impacts of growing fast growing broadleaved species as short rotation forestry in Britain and where possible strengthens it using primary unpublished data.
Forest Research Monograph: 2ISBN 978-0-85538-827-0
This guidance note provides an introduction to the restoration and management of ancient wood pastures in Scotland. It is aimed at land managers, their advisers and agency staff involved in land management and grant assessment. It has also been developed to help applicants to the Scottish Rural Development Programme deliver the ‘Management of Ancient Wood […]
Dense natural regeneration of Sitka spruce and other conifers is an increasingly common feature of both recently clearfelled sites and stands managed under continuous cover forestry in upland forests of the British Isles. This regeneration can be managed by combining natural self-thinning in the early stages of stand establishment with management intervention to cut access […]
Managing ancient and native woodland in England has been produced by Forestry Commission England as an aid to forestry and woodland managers working with ancient and native woodland. It brings together current good management practice to ensure these important woodlands are sustained for the future. Our ancient and native woodlands are one of our oldest […]
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