woodland condition survey

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I finding this painful to watch, I know some of the answers to questions that you are asking because, I was taught them on my forestry degree course. However, because this give me the opportunity to gain TO and consultant jobs, i have been taught a lot of useful points along the way.

 

So, I think you might find the following useful if not PM your mobile number for a quick chat?

 

1. A good book is Woodland Management A Practical Guide, Chris Starr (2005) forget Cyril

 

2. he states the following on p80 Site Survey; a) Ownership and Boundaries b) Surroundings c) Historical and archaeological evidence d) External constraints e) Habitats f) Woodland age and structure g) Soils and climatic influences h) Biodiversity i) Statutory designations

 

i) can be found at Forestry Commission - Advanced Search or

MAGIC Interactive Map for a TPO search contact the local LPA

 

 

3. Your problem with the slander stand grown trees calculate a widthrow hazard class

 

Forest Research - Tree stability and climate

 

4. When undertaking Tree Risk Audits, I do not record trees under 15cm given according to Matheny and Clark this small size of tree rarely fails. This has become common practise within the industry with some consultants.

 

5. How much time per tree well... It has been known for consultants when bidding for Highway Tree Risk Audits to estimate less than 60 seconds for each tree

 

6. I know of at least three people that use digital recorders to make their site notes when survey.

 

I dislike doing woodland plans, but these days you very really have to go on about discount rates and valuation of timber. However recently, I have done a couple for small parcels of land next to M and A roads these were relevantly easy to do by using 2 as a format. Also, I knew the management priority's for the site without these woodland management plans are almost impossible to write because there are to many operations that you can undertake within woodlands.

 

Have you been given a budget for any woodland operations?

 

Good Luck

 

PS. You can print woodland maps off the FC site to scale get yourself an A3 printer and scanner very useful.

 

my thanks to all for the usefull advice, in particular common lime for this post which should help me get a good start on this write up which im doing as we speak!