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Natural regeneration replaces harvested trees on Welsh farm
27 April 2021 |
The farmer generates an income by selling wood as fuel while improving the woodland’s environmental benefits
A Welsh sheep farmer is harvesting wood to power a biomass boiler and to sell as woodfuel while adopting natural regeneration techniques to replace those trees.
Huw Beech has a 12.5 hectare woodland at Plas yn Iâl, a 75 hectare farm near Llandegla in Denbighshire.
The woodland, part of a CADW Registered Historic Woodland and Parkland, has been unmanaged for 65 years.
Mr Beech is working with the industry s Farming Connect scheme, funded by the Welsh government, on a focus site project.
Huw Beech has a 12.5 hectare (ha) woodland at Plas yn Iâl, a 75ha farm near Llandegla. The woodland, part of a CADW Registered Historic Woodland and Parkland, has been unmanaged for 65 years. Mr Beech is working with Farming Connect on a focus site project utilising an approach to forest management where the canopy is retained while individual or small groups of trees are removed at certain times. This technique, known as continuous cover forestry, allows light to reach the forest floor, to encourage new seedlings to grow. This will allow him to generate an income by selling the wood as fuel locally and to meet the needs of his own boiler whilst improving and enhancing the woodland’s environmental and biodiversity benefits.