Small Woodlands - Challenges and Opportunities. Wood For The Trees #6, Doug King-Smith at Hillyfield

Wood for the Trees considers the future of our forests, woodland management, climate change and the future for locally-grown timber. In part six Doug King-Smith talks about the challenges and rewards of managing The Hillyfield Woodland Farm in Dartmoor. Introduced by Tom Barnes, managing director of Vastern Timber, and filmed by Charly Le Marchant at The Hillyfield in Dartmoor, and at Vastern Timber's site in Royal Wootton Bassett, during September and October 2020.

Doug discusses dealing with pests and disease at the Hillyfield, as he works to bring the woodland back to life. He talks about a hostile planning system which struggles to recognise that small scale woodland management is even “forestry". Doug says that the problem of small woodlands being under managed needs to be addressed by policy changes at governmental level. He says that if we want woodlands that nurture humans and communities, then bringing in volunteers and delivering training is valuable, and should be recognised as an important part of small woodland management.

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