Dartmoor National Park Authority

Dartmoor National Park Woodlands Strategy

The Dartmoor Woodland Strategy has been developed in consultation with a range of partners, woodland owners, managers, the timber industry and voluntary sector to act as a guide for those who derive their livelihood from trees, woodlands and timber and those employed to protect landscape, access, biodiversity and cultural features.

The Dartmoor Woodlands Strategy Table of Contents contains hyperlinks which will download PDFs of the pages beneath them, preceeding the next link.

Alternatively the whole report is available in PDF format here:

• Dartmoor National Park Woodlands Strategy PDF (941Kb - PDF Help)

The Strategy brings together on a local scale the environmental, social and cultural issues to help owners and stakeholders to set priorities and achieve optimum benefits. The main issues are identified in the Dartmoor National Park Management Plan where the key objectives are embraced in the following long term vision statement:

'All broadleaved woodland is being actively conserved and conifer plantations are better integrated into the landscape',

Dartmoor National Park Management Plan woodland objectives:

• to conserve and enhance the quality and wildlife interest of woods in the landscape;
• to ensure the long-term stability, health and renewal of broadleaved woodland;
• to secure the best possible integration of conifer plantations into the landscape;
• to ensure protection, management and planting of individual trees and orchards.

The purpose of the Woodland Strategy for Dartmoor is to create a working framework that enables all those involved with trees and woodlands to make progress towards these objectives over the next five years.

Page updated 30 November 2005