Our
Services
Forest
Management
Depending on the clients’ requirements we can offer complete management and stewardship. This is through targeted consultancy and specific individual advice. The service is tailored to meet your requirements and include:
- GIS mapping and record keeping
- Assistance with woodland insurance
- Indicative budgeting
- Deer management
- Thinning and clearfelling
- Timber measurement
- Restocking
- Forest roading
- Weeding, crop protection and fertilising
- Invasive species control
- Felling licences, prior notification & EIA determination
- Management plans
- Grant assistance
- Forest certification
- Conservation works
Timber Marketing, Sales & Harvesting
When you decide to fell your timber, it is important that you get the best return possible. We market and sell timber standing through competitive tender processes, ensuring the best returns are delivered. Operations are carefully planned and supervised to safeguard the client’s interests and ensure compliance with the United Kingdom Forestry Standard, environmental regulations and health and safety legislation is met.
We can assess crops to estimate timber quantity, form, and product content, whilst identifying and mitigating possible operational constraints. This allows the sale to be marketed accordingly with the appropriate legal permissions in place. Indicative budgets are prepared which forecast timber income against necessary expenditure, such as infrastructure and restock planting, so you can make an informed choice before proceeding.
Forest Plans, Grants & Licences
Long Term Forest Plans are the cornerstone of sustainable forest management. We can prepare long term forest plans for your woodland, which can set out management for a twenty-year period. This can help you look forward with confidence and prepare accordingly. Meanwhile providing felling and thinning approval for ten years, along with access to a range of forestry grants.
For smaller forest holdings or one-off jobs individual felling permissions can be obtained to licence felling.
Nicholson Forest Management has up to date knowledge of the forestry grant system which can benefit your forest. We advise on and prepare grant applications for a host of forestry activities, such as forest plan preparation, restocking, woodland creation, and rhododendron eradication, among others.
Restocking & Maintenance
Working with our skilled contractors we can undertake all forms of restock planting, ground preparation and crop maintenance to ensure your investment is well looked after. All works are carefully budgeted, and costs are provided direct to the client with no added fees or margins, so you do not pay more than you have to.
Using our silvicultural expertise, we can tailor planting designs to meet the landowners long term objectives in line with the capability of the site, soil, and climate.
Woodland Creation
Significant grant funding is available to support woodland creation projects and landowners can also benefit from the sale of carbon units generated through new planting.
We can assess your land holding for woodland creation potential, prepare designs and costings so you can make an informed decision. We can take the application through the whole grant approval process and manage operational delivery of the project. We work with skilled fencers, machine operators, planting contractors and reputable tree nurseries to deliver a quality job. Beyond the initial planting, monitoring and maintenance is undertaken to protect the trees in the early years from weed competition and browsing.
We can also assist with the registration and validation of planting schemes with the Woodland Carbon Code.
Please contact us today for a free initial phone consultation on your woodland creation project.
Forest Certification
We can assist with UKWAS certification of your forest; this demonstrates sustainable forest management and often derives a premium on the sale of timber.
