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    [Archive] Forestry Commission Annual Report and Accounts: England and Central Services 2013 – 2014

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    The report is available to download here or to buy in hardcopy from The Stationery Office (TSO) (Phone: 0870 600 5522; www.tsoshop.co.uk)
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    [Archive] Corporate Plan 2014-15: Forestry Commission Cross Border Activities

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This Corporate Plan sets out how the Forestry Commission will deliver its cross border functions.
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    Biomass in live woodland trees in Britain

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This Inventory Report is one of a series of publications reporting the outputs of the Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory. It forms part of the 25-year forecast of softwood availability series, which includes the following reports:• Standing timber volume for coniferous trees in Britain• 25-year forecast of softwood timber availability• 25-year forecast of standing coniferous […]
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    Carbon in live woodland trees in Britain

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This Inventory Report is one of a series of publications reporting the outputs of the Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory. It forms part of the 25-year forecast of softwood availability series, which includes the following reports:• Standing timber volume for coniferous trees in Britain• 25-year forecast of softwood timber availability• 25-year forecast of standing coniferous […]
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    Building wildfire resilience into forest management planning

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    Wildfire events are predicted to increase in frequency in the UK due to increased land-use pressure and climate change. Wildfires can have a number of impacts on sustainable forest management and, in some extreme cases, may have devastating human and environmental consequences. Reducing the incidence and impact of wildfires in forests and woodlands through good […]
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    Elm yellows – Pest Alert

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    Elm yellows is a disease of elm trees caused by a type of bacterium known as a phytoplasma. Symptoms of the disease can range from yellowing of leaves to dieback of foliage and branches. Elm yellows has been found affecting elm trees in North America and a few European countries, but in 2014 it was […]
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    Forestry and surface water acidification

    Lead Author: T R Nisbet
    Forests and forest management practices can affect surface water acidification in a number of ways. The primary mechanism is the ability of tree canopies to capture more sulphur and nitrogen pollutants from the atmosphere than other types of vegetation. Pollutant scavenging is expected to have peaked in the 1970s when emissions were greatest and led […]
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    Establishing and managing gene conservation units

    Lead Author: Jason Hubert
    Conserving the genetic diversity within our tree species and the processes that determine it are important for sustainable forest management and increasing the resilience of Britain’s forests and woodlands. The genetic diversity within a tree species at any one time is the result of many dynamic processes, and it provides the source for future adapted […]
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    Planning for brownfield land regeneration to woodland and wider green infrastructure

    Lead Author: Gail Atkinson
    The regeneration of brownfield land to green space can deliver multiple benefits to society and the environment through improvements in the quality of a site and its surrounding landscape. Successful delivery of regeneration projects is dependent on the planning of project delivery and on good project management. This Practice Note describes the process of brownfield […]
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    Phytophthora lateralis – Pest Alert

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    Phytophthora lateralis is an aggressive, fungus-like pathogen of Lawson cypress trees. It mainly attacks the roots of trees and can spread up through the trunk resulting in the rapid decline and death of the tree. Thought to originate in Asia, the disease is the main cause of mortality in Lawson cypress in its native range […]
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    Insights from behavioural economics for ecosystem services valuation and sustainability

    Lead Author: Darren Moseley
    Ecosystem services refer to the benefits or outputs that people derive from ecosystems. Following the publication of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment there has been a growing interest in assessing the flows of such services and valuing the contribution they make to human well-being. This Research Report draws upon recent evidence (years 2001 to 2012) […]
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    Forestry Facts & Figures 2013

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission
    This booklet contains a summary of statistics about woodland and forestry.Please note – the printed version of this document is an A2 sheet folded to A6. The PDF of the document is set to print at A3 therefore some of the pages will appear upside down.