Official Statistics

National Forest Inventory: tree cover outside woodland in GB

Areas under canopy, numbers of features and mean sizes of wooded features and individual trees outside National Forest Inventory woodland.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Details

Reports on the areas and numbers of small woods, groups of trees, lone and hedgerow trees outside of main National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland, with statistics broken down by category and sub-category (NFI woodland has a minimum size of 0.5 hectares.) Areas and lengths of hedgerows are also covered. Statistics are reported for GB, England, Scotland, Wales, individual NFI regions within England and Wales, and separately for urban and rural areas. Overall purpose is to quantify and characterise tree features outside woodland in GB for use in such areas as carbon sequestration, resource evaluation, tree pest and disease modelling and characterisation of urban and rural environments.

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Published 12 April 2017

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