Growing Trees For Wood Fuel In The Chilterns

CHILTERNS WOODLAND CONFERENCE – Friday, January 26, at Green Park, Aston Clinton, Bucks.
DAVID Lidington MP will be the keynote speaker at a conference on how Chiltern woods can help provide a local source of green renewable fuel for heating.
Using timber from woodlands as an alternative, renewable fuel for heating is the topic of the moment for woodland management as the government is soon to announce its policy on woodfuel.

SPEAKERS at the Conference include:
David Lidington MP for Aylesbury
Mike Render (Forestry Commission and Chilterns Conservation Board)
– The Chilterns woodland resource and national wood fuel policy
Charlotte Bruton TV Energy – The Tree Station, wood fuel supply
Will Richardson, Yorwoods – Ignite ? a wood fuel training scheme in the north of England.
Questions & Discussion

The Chilterns Conservation Board says: “The woods of the Chilterns have survived as a managed resource to provide raw materials and historically firewood was very important. Cutting down trees and burning them for fuel can be a sustainable use and has a low carbon impact as young replacement trees will absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. Letting more light into the woods by carefully thinning out the poorer trees for fuel can also benefit wildlife and encourage more plants to grow helping improve the environment.”

Booking is essential Please contact John Morris, Chiltern Woodlands Project
woodlands@chilternsaonb.org Telephone 01844 355503

The Chiltern Woodlands Project is a charity (reg no 1002512) working to encourage the sensitive and sustainable management of woods across the Chiltern Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty famous for its beech woodlands.