How to manage your woodland
Find out how you can manage your woodland to help ensure its future health and resilience to climate change, pests and diseases in our collection of resources.
Overview
Woodlands are one of our most valuable natural resources. They provide far-reaching benefits to people, nature and the wider environment. For trees to deliver these benefits, they need to be well-managed and protected. Find out how to manage your woodland, to ensure its future health and resilience.
Why woodland management matters
Sustainable woodland management can help you achieve your woodland management objectives, while making your trees more resilient to the threat of climate change, pests and diseases.
Management in action
Learn how farmers and landowners are managing their woodland to make them more resilient to the threat of climate change, pests and diseases.
Available financial support
The Forestry Commission offer a range of grants to help you manage your woodland.
Other reading and resources
Discover the different woodland management techniques to help you achieve your woodland management strategy and objectives, including the steps involved to help you create a woodland management plan from the resources below.
- How to manage your woodland: a guide to woodland management, including planning tips, with English Woodlands Forestry
- So, you own a woodland?: our introductory guide to woodland management on the Royal Forestry Society’s website
Get useful tips on woodland management in our blog posts:
- Why woodland management matters
- Developing the means to manage woodlands
- Is coppicing right for my woodland?
- Why woodland management is key to nature recovery
- Girdling at Bullens Wood – a management technique to thin trees
- Woodland management techniques (infographic)
Watch our woodland management videos:
Updates to this page
Published 11 September 2023Last updated 15 May 2024 + show all updates
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Added a link to 'How to Manage Your Woodland'.
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Added a number of links to woodland management blogs, videos, and a graphic covering the benefits of continuous cover forestry.
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Addition of new summary guide to managing tree pests and diseases, and Northwoods guest blog
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Addition of woodland management techniques infographic
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Addition of Heathpatch Farm case study, woodland management blog post and the Royal Forestry Society's introductory guide to woodland management.
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First published.