Woodland Project publications and newsletter

Some publications are available to download here, others are available in a printed form on request.

Newsletter

• Offcuts Issue 55 -  spring 2013.pdf (1.27 MB)

In this issue:

• Common sense risk management in Trees
• myForest plan for Oxfordshire
• Stanford in the Vale Community Woodland Planting
• Report on Woodland Group principal visit & AGM, Heath Farm, Swerford
• Green Woodworking Courses with the Wychwood Project
• For sale: Motorised Wheelbarrow
• DEFRA: The new Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme (FFIS)
• Oxfordshire Woodland Group Events & workshops 2012
• Armed Forces Community Covenant Scheme – a first for Oxfordshire

Previous Woodland Group newsletters

• Issue 53 - Spring 2012 (pdf format, 627 KB)
• Issue 52 - Autumn 2011 (pdf format, 847 KB)
• Issue 51 - Spring 2011 (pdf format, 337 Kb)
• Issue 50 - Autumn 2010 (pdf format, 1 MB)
• Issue 49 - Spring 2010 (pdf format, 482 KB)
• Issue 48 - Summer 2009 (pdf format, 999 KB)
• Issue 47 - January 2009 (pdf format, 84 KB)

For issues of Offcuts previous to 2009, please contact the project office.

Information leaflets

These information sheets were first published in the late 1990s and contain a large amount of evergreen forestry information. Since then certain points of detail such as contact addresses and grant arrangements may have changed. In particular, the information sheet relating to the selling of timber makes no mention of the use of the internet for small scale timber marketing www.myforest.org.uk. If in doubt, contact the Oxfordshire Woodland Project office on 01865 815427 or owp@oxfordshire.gov.uk.

Downloadable leaflets

The following leaflets are available to download:

• Attracting wildlife to small woods (pdf format, 520 Kb)
• Mobile bandsaws (pdf format, 5.2 MB)
• Pollarding (pdf format, 408 KB)
• Replanting in small woods  - practical work (pdf format, 265 KB)
• Selling trees in small woods (pdf format, 376 KB)
• Thinning in small woods (pdf format, 394 KB)

Printed leaflets

Please contact the Woodland Project office if you would like a printed copy of the following leaflets.

• Thinning in small woods
• Restoring small woods
• Replanting in felled woods - planning
• Replanting in small woods  - practical work
• Replanting in felled woods - choice of species
• Replanting in felled woods - protection and aftercare
• Coppice and its restoration
• Coppicing for firewood
• Mobile bandsaws
• Pollarding
• Formative pruning of woodland trees
• Woodland ponds
• Selling trees in small woods
• A glossary of woodland terms
• Attracting wildlife to small woods
• Agenda 21 in Oxfordshire
• Oxfordshire's woodland heritage
   

Timber sales and purchases

The Oxfordshire Woodland Project promotes trading in small woodland produce to build a more sustainable rural economy. We have adopted the marketing system created by the Sylva Foundation, embedded in their myForest online woodland management tool. Among other functionalities, myForest helps buyers and sellers in any particular district to find one another.

The Woodland Project can offer a demonstration of the facility in Oxfordshire.

Baskets in Europe - a book describing willow, hazel and its historical use in basketry; of interest to woodland and craft-people.