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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…

With A Walk in the Woods Week in full swing, now’s the perfect time to get out and enjoy woodlands – and show how much you love them…

Walk editor Dominic Bates on three things he’s looking forward to this Autumn…

Walkers will now have an influential say on the future of England’s publicly owned woodland, after the Government invited the Ramblers’ CEO to sit on its Independent Panel on Forestry Policy in England…

After an extraordinary outcry from the public and outdoors groups in response to the Government’s plans to sell off England’s publicly owned woodland, Mark Rowe investigates why they were so unpopular, how their hasty abandonment came about, and what happens next…

Weren’t the bluebell woods superb this spring? Over the bank holiday weekends I went on two woodland walks, in Kent and the Chilterns, and they were stunning. Forests have been big news over the past six months, and I’ve spent [...]

Responsible for more than a thousand British woods, the Woodland Trust is a key player in the debate on England’s publicly owned forests…

With bluebell season fast approaching, VisitWoods.org.uk will soon add a special bluebell search button…

Government plans to sell Forestry Commission (FC) land could jeopardise public access to huge swathes of English woodland…