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CampaignsThe Charter for Trees, Woods and People Community forests in EnglandEngland's twelve community forests are afforestation-based regeneration projects which were established in the early 1990s. Each of them is a partnership between the Forestry Commission and the Countryside Agency, which are agencies of the British government, and the relevant local councils. Most of the designated areas are close to large cities and contain large amounts of brownfield, underused and derelict land. When the forests were created the average forest cover in the designated areas was 6.9%, and the target is to increase this to 30% over about 30 years. As most of the land is in private ownership the schemes rely mainly on providing landowners with incentives to plant trees. However the forests contain areas of publicly accessible open land, and increasing public access is one of the objectives. W Resources
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News and comment2019 Apr 24 Is there a zebra in your community woodland? [1] 2018  Dec 13 A new approach to Sheffield’s street trees, Dec 13 [2] We need to bring back the wildwoods of Britain to fight climate change, Isabella Tree, Nov 26 [3] 2017  Devon: Tree Trail aims to highlight village’s unique species, Jul 18 [4]  Manchester: Urban trees breathe life into Salford street, May 17 [5]  200,000 trees to be planted to cut Calder Valley flood risk, Feb 24 [6] 2016 How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life, Aug 7 [7] Scientists use people power to find disease-resistant ash trees, May 15 [8] Britain to go green with 64m trees to be planted in 10 years, May 1 [9] 2014 Government backs planting of four million trees across UK, January 9 [10] Events2015  November 28 - December 6
National Tree Week  May Walk in the Woods  December 20 2014 - January 4 2015 Festival of Winter Walks See also
Interwiki linksWikipedia: Hedge, Hedge laying External links
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