TreeStations & Urban Forestry

Forestry in Britain faces problems of low timber prices and difficulties in paying for management of woodlands from timber sales. High quality sawlogs are much easier to sell than smaller logs and wood for pulping. In urban areas tree surgeons and landscape contractors produce significant amounts of poor quality logs and other tree waste from trees in parks, gardens and streets. Disposal of this is increasingly costly.

BioRegional’s forestry programme looks at woodlands and trees in a local context. It recognises them as assets which are potential resources. We aim to bring woodlands into management for the benefit of people who use them for recreation; for the plants, butterflies and animals that live in them; and for people who work in them or make use of woodland products. We support certification which gives an independent verification of good woodland management.

Looking after woodland, even purely for conservation, produces timber. BioRegional is developing new products and markets for this timber and the material produced by tree surgeons in cities and towns. What some regard as waste can and is being turned into useful valuable products such as wood chip for fuel. TreeStations provide a central point where this can be done.

Last updated 14th January 2008