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News Release from: Forestry Commission | Subject: National Inventory Of Britain's Woods
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 August 2003
National Inventory Of Britain's Woods
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The woodland area of Britain more than doubled during the last century, according to the latest record of tree cover published by the Forestry Commission.
The 'National Inventory of Woodlands and Trees - Great Britain' brings together data published earlier for Scotland, England and Wales, summarising the picture across Great Britain at the start of the 21st century The report found 11.6% of Britain is covered by woodland totalling over 2.6million hectares
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This represents a 26% increase in woodland cover since the previous inventory of woodland in 1980, and a more than doubling of woodland area in Britain over the course of the 20th century.
Scotland has the most woodland with 16.4% cover, a high proportion of which is coniferous, followed by Wales with 13.8% and a more even balance between coniferous and broadleaved trees.
England has 8.4% woodland cover, with broadleaved woodland now the most dominant type and oak the most common tree.
The survey was carried out by the Woodland Surveys Branch of Forest Research, the Forestry Commission's scientific agency.
Copies of the 'National Inventory of Woodland and Trees - Great Britain' cost £15 and are available from Forestry Commission Publications, PO Box 25, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7EW, tel 08701214180 or e-mail forestry@twoten.press.net The GB report and the other reports from the National Inventory of Woodlands and Trees can also be downloaded from the FC website: www.forestry.gov.uk/inventory.
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