Thanks so much for pointing this video out to me. We definitely need more Doug’s, that’s for sure. We are small woodland owners and we’ve managed to save a beautiful old Yew Tree . We’re eager to learn so much more to manage our woodland. Thanks for your videos here on your channel. Diane 🌳 Woodland Tales
Great to see this film highlighting Doug King Smith and the Hillyfield's work. With the right support and obstacles out the way, small woods can provide, diverse livelihoods (firewood, charcoal/turning/fencing/local construction materials/forage to name a few, as well as great hands on volunteering, apprenticing and education opportunities). "Small is beautiful" as E Schumacher highlighted, so you don't even have to own a wood, just enlightened owners seeing the possibilities and local authorities and govt turning policies to support not obstruct woodland livlihoods and culture and the necessary low impact infrastructure to enable them to thrive. The enthusiasm is there. The need at this time of Brexit, covid and climate couldn't be more pressing. There can and I believe should still be areas within existing woods left to the wilds, yet wonderfully some managment and the right plan will actually enhance diversity so this is Win win for people, wildlife, employment, local economy, climate...Doug has had to fight so riduculously hard for this to be understood, so now authorities please, here is a time and opportunity to show you've woken up to the regenerative opportunities of supporting folks to work with the land!!!
Hi and hello. I'm in the process of searching for a piece of woodland so this has been so useful...everyday's a learning day! I'll keep coming back now I've subscribed. A huge thankyou again.😊
small woodland owner here and this spoke to me. i've owned my 3 acre wood for 4 years and got nowhere. the law is vague and impenetrable, planning is too constrained, funding schemes are opaque, and climate change and the pests and disease spread that are driven by it form a ticking time bomb that could undo any planting i consider by changing the conditions faster than the trees can adapt or reach maturity. in the next few months i will fell all my larch due to phytopthera, just like doug - though thankfully it's not the whole of my stand. and now another lockdown (- too little too late -) means i can't travel to my woodland even for recreation. it's a shame because it means plans like the national forest can't work under present conditions because of the obstacles that prevent forestry from being a sustainable industry outside of industrial timber production. my personal feeling is that forest gardening is a beautiful, prosaic solution to the jobs/food security/carbon capture/landscape and environment conundrum we all face but there's almost no incentive or help to move woodlands in that direction
Very interesting. I am learning all the time more about how to manage my 4 acre woodland. Its a fascinating journey, and there is no doubt that woodlands need managing, as a pose to rewilding, which really means going to seed. I can see the great benefits from effective management and utilisation of these precious resources, both for humans, and for all the wildlife, which is my particular interest. Thanks for a very interesting discussion on woodland management 👍🙏
Totally agree…we seem to feel the need to control everything…and call it “improvement “ I had a field of “improved “grassland which was nothing more than a green desert. I”unimproved “it and now it is full of voles and small mammals which in turn attracts kestrels owls foxes,weasels etc I think there is an inbuilt fear of the “wildwood” and the “forest sauvage”. My modest woodland has been enthusiastically allowed to go it’s own way
Actually unmanaged woodland is worse for wildlife than a properly managed woodland. Us humans have basically taken over the role of Aurochs and short tusk elephants in the woodland by creating openings for light to get through etc. management is always needed whether it’s done by humans or animals but a habitat always needs managing.
@@spencersanderson1894 Well thats where the reintroduction of large herbivores comes in. Us humans OVER managed them out of existence in the British Isles...
@@paulshep3010 Yes but for the time being we don’t have large herbivores. So they need management. Even with large herbivores it will still be good to manage woodlands as a resource for timber and wood, it’s much more sustainable than plastic. You can Coppice the same tree for a thousand years.
Prefer to allow my wood to manage itself. Luckily I don’t have to earn a living from it,but apart from a small Christmas tree plantation,I let it go it’s own way. Small scale rewilding. Probably not a good idea for the commercial boys, but for me less work and more biodiversity. It’s what we all want,isn’t it?
Leaving woodlands to ‘just get on with it’ has actually been shown to gradually reduce biodiversity. In effect human led interventions has taken over from what the Aurochs & short tusked mammoths used to do, which affected the evolution of our trees & now our practice of opening up light within the forest canopy to allow for all the birds & insects… Ladies Wood was the study woodland I think if you want to follow up.
All those people banging on about leaving woodlands unmanaged clearly know nothing about habitats and the environment so just shut up and leave it to the people who do understand and know.
I hope the woodlands on dartmoor remain unmanaged! Leave them alone to look after itself, not everything needs human intervention.. Quite the opposite!
Excellent work. We can't wait to see all that's going on this weekend when we visit! with the Land Workers Alliance Woody Branch!
Thanks so much for pointing this video out to me. We definitely need more Doug’s, that’s for sure. We are small woodland owners and we’ve managed to save a beautiful old Yew Tree . We’re eager to learn so much more to manage our woodland.
Thanks for your videos here on your channel.
Diane 🌳 Woodland Tales
Great to see this film highlighting Doug King Smith and the Hillyfield's work. With the right support and obstacles out the way, small woods can provide, diverse livelihoods (firewood, charcoal/turning/fencing/local construction materials/forage to name a few, as well as great hands on volunteering, apprenticing and education opportunities). "Small is beautiful" as E Schumacher highlighted, so you don't even have to own a wood, just enlightened owners seeing the possibilities and local authorities and govt turning policies to support not obstruct woodland livlihoods and culture and the necessary low impact infrastructure to enable them to thrive. The enthusiasm is there. The need at this time of Brexit, covid and climate couldn't be more pressing. There can and I believe should still be areas within existing woods left to the wilds, yet wonderfully some managment and the right plan will actually enhance diversity so this is Win win for people, wildlife, employment, local economy, climate...Doug has had to fight so riduculously hard for this to be understood, so now authorities please, here is a time and opportunity to show you've woken up to the regenerative opportunities of supporting folks to work with the land!!!
Hi and hello. I'm in the process of searching for a piece of woodland so this has been so useful...everyday's a learning day! I'll keep coming back now I've subscribed. A huge thankyou again.😊
So inspiring, giving a boost to small woodland owners like myself who are at the early stages of the learning process.
small woodland owner here and this spoke to me. i've owned my 3 acre wood for 4 years and got nowhere. the law is vague and impenetrable, planning is too constrained, funding schemes are opaque, and climate change and the pests and disease spread that are driven by it form a ticking time bomb that could undo any planting i consider by changing the conditions faster than the trees can adapt or reach maturity. in the next few months i will fell all my larch due to phytopthera, just like doug - though thankfully it's not the whole of my stand. and now another lockdown (- too little too late -) means i can't travel to my woodland even for recreation. it's a shame because it means plans like the national forest can't work under present conditions because of the obstacles that prevent forestry from being a sustainable industry outside of industrial timber production. my personal feeling is that forest gardening is a beautiful, prosaic solution to the jobs/food security/carbon capture/landscape and environment conundrum we all face but there's almost no incentive or help to move woodlands in that direction
I 100 % agree with this man
Great video! Well done Doug and Wood For Trees 😊💛🍁🍂
Great video thank you.
Very interesting. I am learning all the time more about how to manage my 4 acre woodland. Its a fascinating journey, and there is no doubt that woodlands need managing, as a pose to rewilding, which really means going to seed. I can see the great benefits from effective management and utilisation of these precious resources, both for humans, and for all the wildlife, which is my particular interest. Thanks for a very interesting discussion on woodland management 👍🙏
Hi Doug,Thank you for you love of forest Gong Omz from Eddy
We also need more 'unmanaged' woodland as well.....
Totally agree…we seem to feel the need to control everything…and call it “improvement “ I had a field of “improved “grassland which was nothing more than a green desert. I”unimproved “it and now it is full of voles and small mammals which in turn attracts kestrels owls foxes,weasels etc I think there is an inbuilt fear of the “wildwood” and the “forest sauvage”. My modest woodland has been enthusiastically allowed to go it’s own way
@@hotelsierra86 I could not agree more!
Actually unmanaged woodland is worse for wildlife than a properly managed woodland. Us humans have basically taken over the role of Aurochs and short tusk elephants in the woodland by creating openings for light to get through etc. management is always needed whether it’s done by humans or animals but a habitat always needs managing.
@@spencersanderson1894 Well thats where the reintroduction of large herbivores comes in. Us humans OVER managed them out of existence in the British Isles...
@@paulshep3010 Yes but for the time being we don’t have large herbivores. So they need management. Even with large herbivores it will still be good to manage woodlands as a resource for timber and wood, it’s much more sustainable than plastic. You can Coppice the same tree for a thousand years.
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how can the local councils and goverment give permission to some thing that has been around for thousands of years.
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Prefer to allow my wood to manage itself. Luckily I don’t have to earn a living from it,but apart from a small Christmas tree plantation,I let it go it’s own way. Small scale rewilding. Probably not a good idea for the commercial boys, but for me less work and more biodiversity. It’s what we all want,isn’t it?
I'm so glad to hear this.
Leaving woodlands to ‘just get on with it’ has actually been shown to gradually reduce biodiversity.
In effect human led interventions has taken over from what the Aurochs & short tusked mammoths used to do, which affected the evolution of our trees & now our practice of opening up light within the forest canopy to allow for all the birds & insects…
Ladies Wood was the study woodland I think if you want to follow up.
@@waterbirdsong1 Where is Ladies Wood? I would like to learn more. Thanks
All those people banging on about leaving woodlands unmanaged clearly know nothing about habitats and the environment so just shut up and leave it to the people who do understand and know.
I hope the woodlands on dartmoor remain unmanaged! Leave them alone to look after itself, not everything needs human intervention.. Quite the opposite!
theres almost no Forest in the UK. Learn from Germany.....