Proposed Woodland Management Works

Woodland Management Plan

Forestry Commission Approved Woodland Management Plan

Before any woodland mangement works can be undertaken, the Trust has had to complete a woodland management plan that goes out to statutory consultation before being approved by the Forestry Commission.

To read the Trust’s Woodland Management Plan, please follow the link:

FC Approved Woodland Management Plan

The impact of Light in Woodlands

Why is this important?

The following link is to a paper written by Russell Rowley, CEO SGCT and the late Rodney Helliwell, pioneering arboriculturist, silviculturist and forest scientist who pioneered new ways to manage and value trees and woodlands in Britain. In forestry, Rodney made significant and enduring contributions in several areas of tree, woodland and landscape management. But it was his championing of “Continuous Cover Forestry” (CCF), a term he was instrumental in defining and promoting, that will stand perhaps as his greatest legacy in the field. Early in his career he identified the need to see woodlands as ecosystems that deliver multiple values and benefits. By maintaining a continuous woodland canopy and avoiding clearings he saw an opportunity to manage the woodland resource in a more sustainable and nature-oriented manner. In many ways his ideas on ecosystems and benefits were a trigger for later widely accepted ideas of defining “ecosytem services”.

Daylight and Tree Protection within Woodlands -Russell Rowley & Rodney Helliwell