A letter signed by organisations including CONFOR, the Woodland Trust and Our Forests was posted in April in the Daily Telegraph calling on DEFRA’s Secretary of State Owen Paterson to ensure the future of the Forestry Commission’s regulatory and advisory arm, Forest Services, as a separate organisation to take forward the challenges of protecting, improving and expanding England’s woods into the future.
Read the article and the minister’s response in full on Woodland Matters blog by the Woodland Trust.
