Regenerative Forestry Ltd
Providing Professional Consultancy
Across Southern England
Specialising in Irregular Silviculture
Managing Woodlands Sensitively
Moving away from large scale felling operations which destroy ecosystems and release high levels of carbon from the soil; regenerative forestry is the practise of managing woodlands sensitively to create more diverse and resilient environments that can provide habitats and ecotones, while still providing timber products and lock away carbon.
Individual Tree Selection
By a process of individual tree selection, woodlands can be sensitively managed to create an ‘irregular’ stand of age groups and species types. Removing the lower quality trees to make way for naturally regenerated seedlings which are recruited as the next cohort of timber trees.
Higher Grade Timber
Without the need to restock large areas with nursery grown trees, which can often be the source of pests & diseases, irregular stands can provide a constant supply of high grade timber at regular interventions; avoiding the boom and bust cycles of clear-felling and large-scale restocking and maintenance programmes.
Protect Forest Soils
The implementation of the regenerative silvicultural system helps protects forest soils by restricting machinery access to permanent extraction rides; permitting richer herbaceous layers, whilst still providing timber crops to support local industry and lock away the carbon in long-term timber products.
More Resilient Woodlands
The process of selecting individual trees for felling creates gaps in the canopy, letting sunlight warm the forest floor, driving natural regeneration of tree seedlings and ground flora. The airflow generated by the openings reduces humidity, reducing conditions that favour invasive fungal pathogens. Combined with a more complex species composition, pests and diseases are less likely to take effect in causing such devastating results, as seen with Ash dieback, Phytophthora, and Ips Typographus.
