Further reading and useful sources of information forestry.gov.uk/publications
Forestry Commission publications
forestry.gov.uk/ukfs
• The UK Forestry Standard (FCFC001). • UKFS Guidelines - Forests and biodiversity (FCGL001). Guidance and good practice • Forest design planning: a guide to good practice (FCPG012). • Hazards from trees: a general guide (FCPG013). • Life in the deadwood: a guide to managing deadwood in Forestry Commission forests. • Woodland management for bats. Research • Environmental effects of stump and root harvesting (FCRN009). • Evaluating biodiversity in fragmented landscapes: applications of landscape ecology tools (FCIN085).
Other publications • Common sense risk management of trees. National Tree Safety Group. • Common standards monitoring guidance for woodland. Joint Nature Conservation Committee ( JNCC). • EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline. European Environment Agency Technical Report 12/2010. • Habitat management for invertebrates: a practical handbook. JNCC/RSPB. • Large woody debris in British headwater streams: physical habitat role and management guidelines. Research and Development Technical Report W185. Environment Agency. • Managing woody debris in rivers, streams and floodplains. Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. • Rapid dead wood habitat assessment. Quarterly Journal of Forestry 102(1). • The development of ISIS: a habitat-based invertebrate assemblage classification system for assessing conservation interest in England. Journal of Insect Conservation 10. • UK Woodland Assurance Standard. UKWAS Steering Group. • Veteran trees: a guide to good management. English Nature. • Woodland management for birds: a guide to managing for declining woodland birds in England. RSPB, Forestry Commission England.
Websites
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Natural England – www.naturalengland.gov.uk Scottish Natural Heritage – www.snh.gov.uk Countryside Council for Wales – www.ccw.gov.uk Northern Ireland Environment Agency – www.ni-environment.gov.uk
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Forest Research – www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch Northern Ireland Forest Service – www.forestserviceni.gov.uk Joint Nature Conservation Committee – www.jncc.defra.gov.uk European Protected Species – www.forestry.gov.uk/eps UK Biodiversity Action Plan – www.ukbap.org.uk National Biodiversity Network – www.nbn.org.uk
