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WOODLAND The woodland has a naturalness and solitude that is very special, and part of our challenge is to retain these qualities whilst repairing and upgrading the footpaths, walls and fences. We are fortunate to have much conservation expertise, as well as sensitive local residents, amongst our members, to meet this challenge. Management Planning Ideally woods and conservation areas should have management plans. These are usually documents which list the objectives for management and a plan of operations to ensure that the objectives are met. For woods owned by a group a plan is especially useful as it can be used to generate consensus on what can and can't be done in the woods. A plan is also useful to cost up things that we all agree need to be done and will help in funding applications as well as planning voluntary activites. The Forestry Commission management plan trial The Forestry Commission (FC) contribute to woodland management using Woodland Grant Schemes (WGS) which grant aid activities such as fencing out upland oak woods and managing natural regeneration. There are a number of problems with the existing WGS and in 2005 the FC are planning to replace this with a new management planning sytem as a means of supporting long term sustainable woodland management. In June 2003, the FC asked agents throughout Wales for nominations to pilot test the new sytem of management planning. In consultation with the Board of Coetir Mynydd I nominated Parc yr Ynys for this pilot study. In total over 100 woods were submitted and 21 woods were accepted ranging from large estates to a small ancient, semi-natural wood of 1.5.ha in the Wye Valley. Parc yr Ynys was one of the accepted woodlands. The FC Scoping Report can be downloaded here
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