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This Lantra-accredited Customised Award is exclusively developed and delivered by a Lantra-approved Training Provider, who meets our quality standards. The course is specifically tailored to meet learners’ needs. For further details about the course content and delivery locations, please contact the Training Provider using the details provided below.

The minimum age to undertake this course is 16.

The finer details

This is a ‘hands-on’ theory course with practical activities, which includes learners practicing undertaking: tree identification, assessing woodland type and condition, writing a woodland inventory, writing a management plan, and assessing case studies. 

The next time learners walk through a woodland they should see and understand it to a considerably greater degree than prior to the course, even a woodland they know well. Also includes course booklet packed with information and further reading. 

Delivery method

Classroom

Recognised by

Lantra Awards

Course description:

Understanding Woodlands and Woodland Management Download PDF

Who should attend?

Suitable for small woodland owners and those looking to start a career in forestry who don’t know where to begin, or existing environmental/forestry professionals and woodland workers looking to boost their existing skills and knowledge.  

What will be covered?

By the end of the course, learners will:

  1. have an awareness of the importance of understanding a landowners existing skills, values and resources for undertaking woodland management
  2. have an awareness of the history and status of UK woodlands
  3. be able to identify and describe woodland types and gain confidence with identifying British tree species
  4. have an awareness of the main threats, constraints and opportunities relating to UK woodland
  5. have an awareness of the UK forestry regulatory framework and how it relates to managing woodland
  6. have an awareness, of and gain confidence in undertaking, assessing the baseline condition of a UK woodland
  7. have an awareness of, and gain confidence in, compiling a woodland inventory and setting woodland management objectives
  8. have an awareness of the economics of owning and managing woodland, including sources of income
  9. have an awareness of the future for UK woodland and where to go for further learning and support
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