{"id":2057,"date":"2019-04-05T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/cwst\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2019-04-05T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:45:50","slug":"fc2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/cwst\/fc2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Forestry Commission v2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Forestry Commission was established as part of the Forestry Act 1919 &#8211; and is therefore celebrating its centenary this year.\u00a0 A lot has changed since then.\u00a0 On April 1st 2019 some big changes came.\u00a0 This blog post is aimed at giving an overview of the government bodies for forestry, and what they do.\u00a0 If you want to go directly to publications <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">go here<\/a> and click the bar &#8220;Filter publications &amp; research&#8221; to open the search box. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/tools-and-resources\/statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Statistics are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-6\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-6\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Function<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">England<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Scotland<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Wales<\/th><th class=\"column-5\">Northern Ireland<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Managers of the public forest estates<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestryengland.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forestry England<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forestryandland.gov.scot\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forestry and Land Scotland<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalresources.wales\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Wales<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daera-ni.gov.uk\/contacts\/contact-ni-forest-service\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland Forest Service<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Grants, policy and regulation<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/forestry-commission\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forestry Commission<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forestry.gov.scot\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Forestry<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalresources.wales\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Resources Wales<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daera-ni.gov.uk\/contacts\/contact-ni-forest-service\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland Forest Service<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Research and publications<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Research<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Research<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forestresearch.gov.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Research<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daera-ni.gov.uk\/contacts\/contact-ni-forest-service\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Ireland Forest Service<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-6 from cache -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Forestry Commission was established as part of the Forestry Act 1919 &#8211; 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