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Direct seeding at James Wood

Read more about the RFS Case Study on our Direct Seeding Trial at James Wood

Increasing Understanding of Direct Seeding in UK

Building Wood Culture

Read our story for the Forestry Commission’s Trees for Timber Campaign

How Woodland Heritage is building a thriving UK wood culture

Branching out!

News from the timber and woodwork industries. Bookmark this page and check back for updates

Volunteers wanted to help protect red squirrels & trees

The UK Squirrel Accord is looking for volunteers and land managers in Yorkshire, Lancashire and County Durham to help protect the area’s remaining populations of our native red squirrel and young woodlands, following confirmation of further funding from the Forestry Commission. Read more…

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State of the UK’s Woods and Trees report from the Woodland Trust

Four years after their groundbreaking State of the UK's Woods and Trees report, the Woodland Trust have recently released their latest report, once again putting woods and trees under the microscope to check up on their health and see what's changed. Read more …

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New £1m Trees Outside Woodland Fund now open

Grants to support the establishment of thousands of trees, orchards and hedgerows on streets, in parks, and in community and educational spaces across the UK, are now available through The Tree Council – including the introduction of a new £1m grant pot, funded by Defra. Read more …

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The Royal Forestry Society joins Forests With Impact to drive social and environmental change

The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) is the latest member to join a growing network of expert national partners at Forests with Impact. This strategic collaboration strengthens a shared mission to build a greener, more inclusive future, supporting environmental restoration, sustainable workforce development, and a resilient UK forestry sector. Read more …

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Join a collective effort to understand oak health and develop management best practice.

• Do you own or manage a woodland containing oak trees?

• Do you want to understand how climate change is impacting your wood?

• Do you want to work with researchers from Sylva Foundation, Forest Research and Aberystwyth University to explore what you can do to help protect your oak trees?

We are looking for land managers to join our ForestLab Oak Health project. Working together we set out gather information about how environmental change, pests and diseases, as well as current management practice are impacting the health of oak trees under your care. Find out more and sign up here.

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Tree care experts call to look out for abandoned trees

There could be tens of thousands of these strangled-on-stake trees across the UK, and probably many more, in multiple land ownerships and urban locations: from local parks, business and public/private housing estates to large retail car parks and private front gardens.

Whether they have been abandoned or there is no understanding that these stakes and ties should have been removed after 3-5 years (once the trees have established) the result is still the same: these trees will die. Read more …

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20 July, Woodland Day, Dorset

A celebration of woodland culture, Woodland Day is an opportunity for the local community to explore the woodland on our doorstep, and discover ways of living and working with wood. More Information

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