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Forestry is a devolved matter in the UK, administered by separate agencies in each nation. They are: in England, the Forestry Commission; in Scotland, Scottish Forestry; in Wales, Natural Resources Wales; and in Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). [36]
This is a list of some of the forests in the United Kingdom. Care should be taken to distinguish extensive wooded areas from royal forests which may never have been particularly wooded within historical times.
York Community Woodland is a site managed by Forestry England near to Knapton in York, England. The site covers 78 hectares (193 acres), and by its opening in 2024, 210,000 trees had been planted. The site is owned by the City of York Council, and offers an open space on the western side of the City of York. Spare land has been allocated on the ...
Kielder is the largest artificial forest in England and remains one of the Forestry Commission's major timber producing forests. The forest has been under the management of the Commission since it was planted in the 1920s. [42] [43] Mortimer Forest: Shropshire: 1029 Mortimer Forest originally provided firewood for Ludlow Castle.
26% of the UK woodland (0.86 million hectares) is managed by Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland, Natural Resources Wales or the Northern Ireland Forest service. [64] When the Forestry Commission was founded in 1919 it inherited responsibility for several forests, some of which were former royal forests and contained ancient woodland. [65]
England's community forests are afforestation-based regeneration projects [1] which were established in the early 1990s. [2] Each of them is a partnership between the Forestry Commission and the Countryside Agency , which are agencies of the British government , and the relevant local councils .
The forest is now mainly planted with conifers. According to Forestry England, Alice Holt Forest Park today covers 851 hectares (2,100 acres) of mainly Corsican pine but approximately 140 hectares (350 acres) of oak, planted in 1815, still remain. Some broad-leaved species have also been reintroduced as part of a regeneration programme. [6]
Forestry England is a division of the Forestry Commission, responsible for managing and promoting publicly owned forests in England. It was formed as Forest Enterprise in 1996, before devolving to Forest Enterprise England on 31 March 2003 and then being rebranded to Forestry England on 1 April 2019. [1] [2] Its mission is to connect everyone ...