Home | News | Ballogie’s Long Term Forest Plan Renewal 2023-2034

Ballogie’s Long Term Forest Plan Renewal 2023-2034

We are in the process of renewing our Long-Term Forest Plan and would like to invite your comments on our proposals. 

The consultation period runs until 11th Jan 2023. **CONSULTATION PERIOD IS NOW CLOSED**

Aims:

  • Economic Viability: Maintain a regular and positive income from the forest resource as a whole
  • Quality: Produce sustainable and quality timber products.
  • Resilience: Restructure and build woodland resilience to climate change through addressing skewed age class and diversifying species composition.
  • Biodiversity: Maintain and enhance wildlife habitats
  • Community: Maintain low key access throughout suitable areas of the estate woodlands.
  • Training: Incorporate staff development and training programme

Objectives:

  • Fulfil all legal and contractual obligations committed to within the plan period.
  • Grow and regularly harvest quality woodland products.
  • Manage the woodlands in accordance with the UK Woodland Assurance Scheme (UKWAS) and The UK Forestry Standard (UKFS)
  • Address the skewed age-class of the commercial woodlands.
  • Explore opportunities for new areas of planting.
  • Diversify the species composition slightly away from Scots Pine dominance.
  • Explore different CCF/LISS management options to restructure woodlands where NR has been traditionally practiced but not had productive results. Alongside Clear-felling and restocking where appropriate.
  • Maintain native pinewood areas. Continue NR in Lamahip.
  • Continue NR in Scots pine compartments where NR has had success.
  • Maintain character of landscape retention smaller woodlands.
  • Deer control – improve deer lawns and forest tracks, renew our fencing strategy, initiate a bracken management plan.
  • Fire control- Update fire control plans, Cooperation with Birse Parish Deer Management Group, create and/or revive firebreaks in woodland.
  • Explore opportunities in biosecurity and climate mitigation e.g tree nursery.
 
This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience. We use necessary cookies to make sure that our website works. We’d also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the site. By clicking “Allow All”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyse site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts.
These cookies are required for basic functionalities such as accessing secure areas of the website, remembering previous actions and facilitating the proper display of the website. Necessary cookies are often exempt from requiring user consent as they do not collect personal data and are crucial for the website to perform its core functions.
A “preferences” cookie is used to remember user preferences and settings on a website. These cookies enhance the user experience by allowing the website to remember choices such as language preferences, font size, layout customization, and other similar settings. Preference cookies are not strictly necessary for the basic functioning of the website but contribute to a more personalised and convenient browsing experience for users.
A “statistics” cookie typically refers to cookies that are used to collect anonymous data about how visitors interact with a website. These cookies help website owners understand how users navigate their site, which pages are most frequently visited, how long users spend on each page, and similar metrics. The data collected by statistics cookies is aggregated and anonymized, meaning it does not contain personally identifiable information (PII).
Marketing cookies are used to track user behaviour across websites, allowing advertisers to deliver targeted advertisements based on the user’s interests and preferences. These cookies collect data such as browsing history and interactions with ads to create user profiles. While essential for effective online advertising, obtaining user consent is crucial to comply with privacy regulations.