Tag: management
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British Woodlands Survey 2025
Have your say about woodland resilience Woodland resilience is perhaps the most important concern for everyone who manages trees and woodlands. It underpins all aspects of management and ultimately affects how trees and habitats will thrive in future. Changes in our environment, whether caused by humans or natural ecological processes, are impacting Britain’s trees and…
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Woodland Skills Centre Courses Offer
The Woodland Skills Centre in North-East Wales offers all members of SWOG a 10% discount on all their courses. Going on one of the courses also gives the opportunity to see their woodland – which is part of the National Forest for Wales and which has just been awarded a gold medal by the Royal…
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Books: The Chainsaw Manual
The Chainsaw Manual Overleaf Publishers Published 31/8/24 ISBN 9781399996686 Spiral-bound paperback, 91 pages A comprehensive guide to chainsaw maintenance and servicing, produced by a qualified NPTC Assessor and Lantra Instructor with 25 years of industry knowledge and expertise. The manual is suitable for both beginner and advanced chainsaw users, from private woodland owners to professional arborists,…
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YDMT Woodland Management Programme
In a recent SWOG webinar, Mike Appleton told us about the work of the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) and How to Reduce the Use of Plastics in Woodland. Here he describes a new project that supports owners to get more small woodlands into active management in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Nidderdale and the…