Getting Started in Your Own Wood: Looking After and Caring for a Small Wood

Owning a small wood or being able to help look after one well has become an increasingly popular subject. Getting Started in Your Own Wood has all you need to know about the basics. It is written by experts committed to the care and stewardship of woodland resources and provides practical advice and guidance for those coming to woodland management for the first time.

Getting Started in Your Own Wood is an expanded and updated edition of Julian Evans's hugely successful Badgers, Beeches and Blisters, first published in the UK in 2006 and reprinted four times. Every chapter has been revised, and two new chapters were added by Will Rolls on firewood and tree pests and diseases. This revised and expanded edition includes:

Owning or caring for a wood

First steps

Planting and caring for trees

Natural regeneration

Cleaning, pruning, thinning, and felling

Coppicing and pollarding

Woodland crafts and products

Firewood and wood to burn

Enriching the wood for wildlife

Keeping your wood safe from pests and diseases

Advice and where to get help.