This article is an account of experience in a 40-year experiment in restructuring sweet chestnut coppice into high forest for amenity and timber production by storing. Conducted in Wilderness Wood in England, the article recounts the history of the site and the start of the experiment from 1981 by...

Increasing the growth rate of teak trees is carried out to shorten the tree harvest rotation and reduce the deficit of teak timber supply, while maintaining the superiority of wood properties. The study was conducted to determine the nature of five-year-old JUN Teak wood in three classes of tree...

The European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) was adopted in 2010. This Regulation prohibits placing illegally harvested timber on the EU market and obliges economic operators who put timber products for the first time on the EU market to exercise due diligence. So far, little research has been done...

Several studies addressed the water footprint (WF) of countries and virtual water (VW) trade in agricultural and industrial products, but freshwater use associated with wood products has received little attention. Yet, international trade in wood products has been growing, and forestry competes...

Parental support for children's Forest School (FS) education is likely connected to the parents' own views about FS. We investigated parents' perceptions of FS by performing a qualitative study on parents' views, as expressed in an online forum for parents (Mumsnet). Findings were grouped into two...

This article introduces Shrawley Wood, Britain's largest lime wood, and now the subject of a significant study by local naturalists. The management of Shrawley Wood, its formal recognition as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), the number of small-leaved lime in it, and the future of...

Timber has been a versatile material for centuries. During the start of the Railway Age in the nineteenth century it was in considerable demand, particularly for bridge building. Timber is still in service and widely used throughout the UK network. The resilience and favourable strength to weight...

Given the well-known carcinogenicity of hardwood dust, occupational exposure to oak wood dust has been determined in a furniture factory on different wood processing machines during sanding, planing, and milling. Determination of the mass concentrations of respirable and inhalable oak wood dust...

This paper presents that key timber-yielding species present in past forests in Britain. The continuing role of forests in the provision of timber, fuel and fibre as society moves towards the establishment of a low carbon economy in the 21st century will remain extremely important. Further, the...

Some studies suggest that the carbon intensity of electricity generated in the United Kingdom by using imported wood pellets from the southern United States is higher than that of coal-based electricity, whereas other studies suggest that the use of wood pellet-based electricity reduces carbon...