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<h1><font size="3" face="Verdana"><strong>The Whitelands Project</strong> - Forestry
& Woodland Management</font></h1>
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<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Forestry & Woodland Surveying</strong></font><strong><font face="Verdana">
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<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">We can provide Forestry/Woodland
surveys for you. Minimum charge tends to be around £250 for a site visit,
and report. </font><font size="2" face="Verdana">These types of surveys are
carried out for management purposes. They are mostly used in timber producing
operations to:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana" align="justify">Quantify parcels of timber
for sale (Most accuracy demanded) </font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana" align="justify">Describe woodlands for a management
plan </font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana" align="justify">Monitor trees or stands (Least
accuracy demanded)</font></li>
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<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">The methods used are standardised
& accountable. The measurement of trees & timber in all forestry situations
in the UK are those described in Forestry Commission Booklet 39 Forest mensuration.
Considerable experience is needed to choose the correct protocol for a given
situation. Booklet 39 starts too far down the road for amenity governed woodlands,
but it is essential when any sort of production felling operation is undertaken.
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<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Timber varies in value with age
(which mostly relates to optimal size). High value timber demands the most accurate
methods of measurement, at the top of this list:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana" align="justify">Felled timber measurement
(Most accurate, most expensive). </font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana" align="justify">Single tree measurement (Accurate
standing timber measure). </font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana" align="justify">The Tariffing system. (Best
approximation). </font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana" align="justify">Fixed plot analysis (for large
areas& low value produce) </font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana" align="justify">Variable plot analysis (least
accurate, used for large forests)</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Whitelands based services</strong></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong> </strong>The site is used by many organisations
and parties. We are on the BBC locations register, we provide practice facilities
for historical re-enactors. Our strongest work of this nature, and one we wish
to increase is the use by parties of students for various studies.</font> </p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Tree surveying &
measurement</strong></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">We can provide a tree measurement
service for you. Minimum charge tends to be about £250 for a site visit
and report. </font><font size="2" face="Verdana">We have provided them for Maintenance,
Monitoring, Safety, Insurance, Development, and Litigation, all to do with trees
in an arboricultural situation.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Typically, we use the British
Standard 5837: 1991 Trees in relation to construction. This is an adequate method
whose greatest asset is its standardisation. With site-specific descriptions,
and by making it relative, most requirements for description can be accomplished.
It is used and understood by all professionals in the Arboriculture Industry.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Our scientific surveys of necessity
move away from BS 5837, toward using ecological, and botanical descriptions
with microscopic and in vitro methods. We can also carry out Habitat surveys
to Phase I & II standards.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Timber, underwood, foliage
and plant supplies</strong></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">We sell HGV1 loads of timber
for prices starting at about £1000, this works out at about £40
per tonne. </font><font size="2" face="Verdana">With warning we can source any
standing British Grown timbers, arrange for their felling under licence, and
deliver to an agreed location.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Our timber is used for many purposes.
In terms of value, the lowest commodity on the scale is firewood. Moving up
through the grades, next come fencing commodities of small diameter, to dimensions
and specifications for construction, and framing purposes.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Accuracy & cost</strong></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">The greater the accuracy, the
greater the cost. But how accurate does it need to be? Volume estimates should
always be qualified, and even slightly weighted to yield low. This gives a “buffering”
capacity, (For instance, by not counting small stems below a defined diameter)
but must not be too great or the owner will lose out. It is the assessors responsibility
to interpret, and control how contractors will operate.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Be aware that timber can be measured
Standing, Felled, Solid volume, Stacked volume, Green weight, Dry weight, Length,
Number of pieces, Overbark, Underbark, Top diameter, Taper.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Product value/volume</strong></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Timber operations resulting in
less than an HGV 1 load are not worth assessment cost, unless other factors
in this list override this first principle. The legal baseline is that if more
than 5 m3 of timber are felled, then a Felling Licence must be obtained.( Forestry
Act 1967 Part III).</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Woodland & Coppice
Derived Material (CDM) research </strong> </font> </p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana">In conjunction with the University
of Portsmouth we are undertaking research and teaching in the following topics:</font></p>
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<ul>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana">The restoration of CDM to the contemporary
architects palette.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana">Evaluation and grading of CDM on stool and
roadside.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana">Packaging and transportation of CDM</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana">The carbon content and fixation of woodlands
at different stages of their life cycle. (performed for existing Environmental
Impact Statements.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Verdana">Preliminary research into non-penetrative
investigation of stems and timber.</font></li>
</ul>
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