Woodland Survey

[Luke Quenby]

Evening all,

 

I am in the second year of a Wildlife & Countryside management degree at Moulton College in Northamptonshire. As part of the course, we have to do an extended study within a relevant sector to the course. The area that I have chosen to investigate is neglected woodlands, and the potential they hold for provision of wood fuel and income, as well as habitat and conservation realisation.

 

The title of the study is 'Realising the potential of undermanaged woodlands' and I hope to be able to provide a comprehensive study into the often overlooked and undeveloped income source that they could provide. The study will focus on one particular area of woodland local to me, but will also look at the broader picture of the many small and fragmented woodlands we have in the country. I plan to do a case study for the area of woodland I am looking at, including a comprehensive management plan, habitat surveying, grant funding, financial models and timetables, leisure and access possibilities and looking at how the model I provide could be applied to other generic woodlands in the UK.

 

I am planning on putting together a survey (Steve has given the thumbs up!) and using this site, as well as the RFS site and a few woodland owners / workers I know to complete it.

 

I am limited to 10 questions, and am finding this pretty tough to get all the info I need to see if there are any trends and statistical similarities that can be applied to this study.

 

The questions can be found here Woodland Management Survey

But PLEASE don't fill them in, just maybe take a few minutes to read through and give me any feedback before I 'go live' with it in a few days time. I'll be pestering you all to fill it in later in the week!

 

Any thoughts / suggestions / criticisms will be taken on board, please don't shoot me down in flames but I would be really grateful of any insights and opinions anyone has.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this / check out the survey, look forward to hearing all of your thoughts! Cheers, Luke

[Luke Quenby]

I've just read through the survey again and noticed a good amount of typo's and grammatical errors - these will be rectified before I publish - and before anyone tells me to learn to spell on here!

[Luke Quenby]

Cheers for the feedback John K, will let you know how it goes, did you check the survey out - any thoughts? Luke

[john k]

Any thoughts on how you might reach owners of unmanaged woodland? Might be a lot of potential that gets missed in the survey.

[Luke Quenby]

The survey will be going out on the RFS web site to, hopefull that I will pick up a few people from there. I think trying to get into the farmer world could be a good one too, that seems to be an area where there is lots of smaller pockets of under managed woodland. Still working on that one!