Getting Started in Your Own Wood

Handbook / Manual

By: Julian Evans(Author), Will Rolls(Author), John White(Illustrator), Stephen Evans(Illustrator), Sophie Churchill(Foreword By)

163 pages, 40 b/w illustrations, tables

Publisher: Hyden House

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ISBN: 9781856232128 Edition: 2 Paperback Jul 2015 Out of stock with supplier: order now to get this when available
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Owning a small wood or being able to help look after one well has become an increasingly popular subject. Getting Started in Your Own Wood has all you need to know about the basics. It is written by experts committed to the care and stewardship of our woodland resources and provides practical advice and guidance for those coming to woodland management for the first time.

Includes:
- Owning or caring for a wood
- First steps
- When you may need permission
- Planting and caring for trees
- Natural regeneration
- Cleaning, pruning, thinning and felling
- Coppicing and pollarding
- Woodland crafts and products
- Firewood and wood to burn
- Enriching the wood for wildlife
- Keeping your wood safe from pests and diseases
- Advice and where to get help

Getting Started in Your Own Wood is an expanded and updated edition of Julian's hugely successful Badgers, Beeches and Blisters, it has been fully revised and has two new chapters added by Will Rolls on firewood and tree pests and diseases.

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Handbook / Manual

By: Julian Evans(Author), Will Rolls(Author), John White(Illustrator), Stephen Evans(Illustrator), Sophie Churchill(Foreword By)

163 pages, 40 b/w illustrations, tables

Publisher: Hyden House

NHBS

Thinking of buying a small wood, own or care for one? Then this is the book for you

Media reviews

"Written in accessible language, it demystifies management and provides owners with the confidence to make the most of their woodlands whatever their objectives. We'll certainly be recommending it as essential reading."
– Phil Tidey, Small Woods Association

"This charming book conveys very tellingly the enthusiasm, love and fun involved in woodland ownership. It is written in a manner that is virtually completely non-technical and should be intelligible to everyone interested in woods."
– Peter Savill, author of The Silviculture of Trees Used in British Forestry

"The enthusiasm of the authors for their subject comes through, alongside the pleasure that they have got from their woods, and their desire that others may get similar enjoyment. That surely must be part of what the Independent Panel for Forestry in England meant when it stressed the need to see a new woodland culture in which woodlands and wood as a material and fuel are highly valued and sought after."
– Keith Kirby Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford

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