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Encyclopedia > Forest Enterprise

The Forestry Commission is a non ministerial Government Department in the United Kingdom. With an office in Edinburgh, Scotland, it is now divided into three regions: Forestry Commission England, Forestry Commission Scotland and Forestry Commission Wales. It has commercial timber interests managed by regional Forest Enterprise agencies, and also owns Forest Holidays which hires out forest cabins to the general public. Edinburgh (pronounced ; Dùn Èideann () in Scottish Gaelic) is the second-largest city in Scotland and the countrys capital city. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...

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Sitka Spruce growing in Kielder Forest Kielder Forest is a large forestry plantation in Northumberland. ... Northumberland is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in northern England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked... Perth and Kinross (Peairt agus Ceann Rois in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Pickering is a small town in North Yorkshire, England, on the borders of the North York Moors National Park, and is a terminus of the North Yorkshire Moors Steam Railway, a heritage railway. ... Bolton Abbey North Yorkshire is a Shire county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked... North York Moors National Park is a National Park in the north of England. ... Liskeard, an ancient Stannary and market town at the head of the River Looe valley in southeast Cornwall, UK, is the administrative centre of the Caradon District. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county at the extreme South-West of England on the peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. ...


Recreation

The Forestry Commission is working with many user groups to promote the use of its land for recreation such as walking, cycling and horseriding. Most notable and successful is its 7stanes project in Scotland where seven purpose built areas of manmade mountain bike trails have been laid and has proved very popular.


Woods

The woods near Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. ... Twyford Wood, formerly known as Twyford Forest, is a commercial wood around grid reference SK948230owned by the Forestry Commission, England, an agency of the British Government and managed by its subsidiary, Forest Enterprise (England). ... RAF North Witham at British national grid reference SK947229, an air station of the Second World War period, established by the British Royal Air Force, was lent to the United States Army Air Forces and is now abandoned in Twyford Wood, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire. ...

See also

Englands twelve community forests are afforestation based regeneration projects which were established in the early 1990s. ...

External links

  • www.forestry.gov.uk
  • Forest Holidays
  • 7stanes

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Forest Enterprise was considering enhancing their mapping capabilities, focusing specifically on stock management (keeping track of trees) while the Forestry Authority was concerned with constraints mapping (keeping track of where grants or felling licences have been issued, areas of restricted access, wildlife conservation areas and privately managed forests) requirements.
Forests of high environmental quality famous for their landscape, their botanical interest or of unique cultural value - for instance, the New Forest and the Forest of Dean - are all managed by Forest Enterprise.
The responsibility of Forest Enterprise is also extended to the stewardship of several hundred sites of special scientific interest and forest nature reserves and their public access policy offers us the freedom to roam throughout and enjoy these woodlands, subject only to safety considerations, conservation or legal constraints.
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Forest-based enterprise activities are defined here as those that use any materials or products that occur in forests or woodland, or from trees outside the forest.
Forests also provide the raw materials for many small-scale rural processing and manufacturing enterprises, such as wood for furniture and implement making, canes, reeds and vines for basket, mat and handicraft production, wood for charcoal production, nuts and seeds for oil processing, and bark for tannin processing.
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