Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission is the government department responsible - in its own words - "for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

The Forestry Commission is the government department responsible - in its own words - "for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

The Forestry Commission is the latest organisation to join the Woodland Trust in its Ancient Tree Hunt, which aims to identify 100,000 venerable trees by 2011.

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But the Forestry Commission is the agency charged with taking the lead in fighting forest fires because it has expertise in fighting hard-to-reach blazes in the woods.

TheSunNews.com: Local 2009

The Scottish Venison Partnership, an alliance that includes some of the country's largest Highland estates, the Forestry Commission and the wildlife agency Scottish Natural Heritage, claims that conventional deer culling is failing to keep up with demand for the highly prized meat.

Scots landowners lobby for deer farms 2011

Re-erected by the Forestry Commission as a memorial to these men, this is the only evidence of a remarkable chapter in forest history.

Country diary: New Forest 2011

Mike HarveyOswestry, Shropshire• In the euphoria of seeing the government forced into an embarrassing "yew turn" on the half-baked forest sell-off plan Letters, 18 February, there is a danger that real damage to the Forestry Commission will go unnoticed.

Letters: When the rot set in at the Forestry Commission 2011

In the best traditions of chaos theory the storm which engulfed the coalition's forestry sell-off began last summer with little more than the fluttering of a butterfly's wings when new ministers warned the Forestry Commission that modest in-year savings would have to be made in its current budget.

Forestry sell-off: public and political opposition forced U-turn 2011

The Moray Firth near Inverness is an unlikely location for a "Scottish desert", but that was the local name for Culbin district near the mouth of the Findhorn river before the Forestry Commission planted it with fir trees and stabilized the sand dunes.

Weatherwatch: A storm that made a desert on the Moray Firth 2011

Environment ministers reeling from defeat over the fate of the Forestry Commission caved in, but were then baffled at the fury of green organisations outraged to see the end of 50 years of countryside guardianship.

The maths of coalition has opened the door to lobbyists | Simon Jenkins 2011