Wormley WoodConservation Practice Publications

These documents include our woodland management principles, conservation research findings, reviews of Woodland Trust practice.
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The conservation and restoration of plantations on ancient woodland sites - New Woodland Trust guide on the management of plantations on ancient woodland sites for woodland owners and managers.

This concise guide, sponsored by UPM Tilhill, has been produced to give advice on how to conserve and restore these valuable sites. It is based on research commissioned by the Trust, and the Trust’s own experience of putting its recommendations into practice. You can either download the guide from the link opposite or, to obtain a free hard copy, phone 01476 581135. A bilingual version for Wales will be available shortly.
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  Is your local wood under threat - How you can take action to protect it  
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Ancient Tree Guides - Trees and farming
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  Click here an enlarged text version of this documentLooking after Woodland - Outlines how we manage and care for our woods. (Revised May 2005) (Welsh version 222KB) 1200k
Urban Woodland Management series - These guides are produced by the Woodland Trust as a resource for managers creating or managing urban woods:
Damage and misuse 207k
Litter and fly-tipping 174k
Complaints and queries 154k
Tree planting and woodland creation 198k

Thinning and felling

  

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Plantations on ancient woodland sites
Restoring planted ancient woodland sites - proceedings of a conference organised jointly with the BES Forest Ecology Group (Sep 02)
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The area and composition of plantations on ancient woodland sites - an analysis using data from the Forestry Commission's National Inventory of Woodlands and Trees
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Restoring plantations on ancient woodland sites - conversion to native woodland or conservation of ancient woodland communities?
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The cost of restoring plantations on ancient woodland sites - an analysis of the economics of future management options.
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Pages 1-32
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Pages 32-60
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Pages 60-71
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Click here for the Woodland Trust's summary and call for action
New woods for people - The Woodland Trust's experience of woodland creation.
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Summary of the research presented as a paper at the international conference held at Sheffield Hallam University 2003 ‘Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts’: There were two aims of the project: firstly to investigate the local and landscape scale Holocene vegetation history if Ledmore and Migdale woods through analysis of the pollen profile within a small woodland hollow and; secondly to inform the woodland management of Ledmore and Migdale woods by reference to the Holocene vegetation history of the woodland.
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