Knowledge Bank
Over the years, Woodland Heritage has created many fantastic resources. You can access these below in the Resources section.
Also on this page: Branching out! Latest news, News from the Wood & Timber industry; Events noticeboard
Please have a look through and let us know if you have an resource, story or event to share!
Resources from Woodland Heritage
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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!
🌱 Final push towards 10 million trees as National Forest plants more than 150,000 in the last season
During the 2024–25 season, more than 150,000 trees have been planted, bringing the total since the National Forest began to over 9.85 million.
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🌳 Expanding tree cover on farms: what matters to farmers?
This guide is intended to help advisors to think through what farmers value and consider how these values can inform conversations about increasing tree cover on farms.
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💚 RFS publishes new video addressing urgent need for action
Every Interaction Matters: mental health in forestry
Mental health in forestry needs our urgent attention. We all know the challenges that can come from working forestry, from isolation and physical demands to financial uncertainty. This is reflected in anecdotal evidence, which tells us that most people working in forestry know someone who has been severely affected by issues surrounding mental health.
The Royal Forestry Society and partners are working to address this issue head-on, starting with this short video, which highlights the daily pressures that can build and build until it gets too much.
The short animation is launched on #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, brought to you by the RFS and in partnership with Confor, FISA, Forestry Contractors Association and the ICF. This project was kindly funded by the Forestry Commission. Please take two minutes to watch and share this video and help bring this issue to the forefront.
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📃 Centre for Forest Protection - online learning modules
The Centre for Forest Protection (CFP) is a Defra-funded collaboration, led by Forest Research and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which aims to protect our trees from environmental and socioeconomic threats, through innovative science, interdisciplinary research, expert advice and training. The CFP provides access to free continuous professional development (CPD) training through e-learning modules that focus on the future of forest protection. The goal is to offer valuable and forward-looking training that will increase the skills and knowledge within the forestry sector.
You can now access their ‘Resilience fundamentals, tree health, and non-native pests and pathogens’ training package which currently features two modules: ‘Meet the threats’, which gives an overview of the risks and challenges that non-native pests and pathogens present to trees, and ‘Reducing risks for resilient trees’ (just launched this week!) which looks at how those risks can be minimised to enhance resilience in trees. You will receive a certificate upon successful completion of each module. A third module, 'The role of genetics in tree health and forest resilience', is also in development.
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📃 New online course opens up UK Forestry Standard to non-foresters to widen understanding of sustainable forestry
The Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) has launched a new online training course designed to bring the best practice principles of the UK Forestry Standard to non-foresters.
The course is based on the technical standard for sustainable forestry in the UK, which is not widely known or accessed outside of the forestry sector – and yet its principles should form the basis for any decision-making involving trees and woodlands.
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🌰 Young people’s socio-cultural values in relation to trees outside woodland
New publication from Forest Research: Young people have not been well represented in discussions about trees outside woodlands in peri-urban and rural areas (ToWPUR). This has resulted in their experiences and attitudes being overlooked in policy frameworks and management strategies for these landscapes.
The research reported in this In Brief addresses this gap by examining young people’s experiences of, and relationships with, ToWPUR, exploring their socio-cultural values and their specific value orientations.
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🐾 Celebrating progress and world first for fertility control research
Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) researchers funded by the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) and supporters attained a world first for wildlife fertility control. Positive news for a programme aiming to find a non-lethal option for invasive grey squirrel management.
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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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