…you’re in for a big surprise, for winter brings unexpected beauty, unique wildlife and genuine wonder to our forested glades, says Paul Miles

Author Sara Maitland won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1978 for her first novel, Daughter of Jerusalem, and found more recent fame with 2008’s A Book of Silence. Susan Gray talks to her about her new book exploring Britain’s forests, and asks how nature connects us all to the magical and divine…

Visitors to the nation’s National Parks are being urged to help stem the spread of a disease that is killing thousands of trees throughout Europe…

As part of the Tree Council’s Walk in the Woods event, Ramblers walk leaders will be running over 80 walks throughout the nation’s woodlands…

The former Ramblers chief executive Tom Franklin sat on the Independent Panel on the future of England’s forests from the outset. He explains how its recent report came together and why it’s such a boon for walkers…

England’s public forestry should be retained, public access to it protected and similar levels of access to the country’s other woodland should be the norm – so says an Independent Panel on the future of England’s woods…

With its Red Tape Challenge, the Government promises to cut whole swathes of regulation deemed unnecessary or burdensome. But vital laws protecting footpaths and countryside access are also under review, and the impact for walkers if they’re lost – as Andrew McCloy uncovers – could be devastating…

The Independent Forestry Panel continued their tour of forests around the country with a visit to Devon in January, as the Ramblers ramps up pressure on them to recommend that the Government keeps England’s publicly-owned forests and introduces the same level of quality access to the rest of the country’s woodland…

Six years on from a public appeal to raise funds, the Woodland Trust has completed the first stage of the restoration of Wentwood Forest – including thinning almost all the areas previously planted with conifers to provide space and light for native oak, beech and hazel to take their place…

Ramblers has today delivered a tree to every member of the Forestry Panel – urging them to listen to the people and keep our forests open to the public. Each beech sapling bears messages from some of the thousands of people who took part in our recent woodland rallies…