{"id":25,"date":"2013-02-13T15:31:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org.cp-27.webhostbox.net\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2020-07-10T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:32:07","slug":"woodland-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Woodland management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great opportunities presented by woodland crofts is to be able to manage woodland better: for trees &amp; timber; for wildlife; and most importantly, for people.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream forestry can do many things but with the best will in the world there is usually no way that a busy commercial forester can match the level of management input to an area of woodland that would be typical of a woodland crofter going about his everyday business. Nor should this level of input be considered as a \u2018luxury\u2019, gladly undertaken for the non-market benefits arising \u2013 it brings its own economic returns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Management.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-321\" title=\"Extraction &amp; Utilisation\" alt=\"Management\" src=\"http:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Management.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Management.jpg 550w, https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Management-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>As the dry jargon of the original <a href=\"http:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/WoodlandCroftsSteeringGroupFinalReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Steering Group<\/a> report on woodland crofts put it, it<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201c<\/i><i>Derives economic benefits from local intensive management of areas of forest that may be difficult to achieve with remote management on an extensive basis\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But woodland management, of all activities, does not produce instant results. Change is slow; we inherit the fruits of our forebears\u2019 labours, and pass on the fruits of our own to future generations. In such circumstances a measured approach and long-term planning is required.<\/p>\n<p>A Guidance Note looking in detail at the issues in planning woodland management is available <a href=\"http:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Woodland-crofts-forest-management-February-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Other guidance on woodland management and links to relevant information can be found in the <a title=\"Guidance\" href=\"http:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/?page_id=136\">Guidance<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great opportunities presented by woodland crofts is to be able to manage woodland better: for trees &amp; timber; for wildlife; and most importantly, for people. Mainstream forestry can do many things but with the best will in the world there is usually no way that a busy commercial forester can match the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/241"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodlandcrofts.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}