Wood Pasture Woodlands

The Wood Pasture Woodlands project has extended valuable remnants of existing wood pasture by stock fencing and tree planting. Excluding grazing livestock for a number of years, conserves the remnants of wood pasture and allows the recently planted trees to become established. Once the wood pasture woodland has been regenerated sufficiently, sheep and cattle can be reintroduced to the wood. Click here for more details on the Wood Pasture Woodland Sites and here to see map of site locations.

One of the Wood Pasture Woodland sites, the Cockburn Wildwood in Berwickshire, has been included in the Forestry Commission Scotland S9 Pilot Grazing Project. This area has been fenced off to exclude stock and survey plots established. Controlled grazing with cattle within this woodland is being carried out to establish if trees can regenerate under light levels of grazing. By monitoring tree regeneration and vegetation on the site over the years, it is hoped that levels of grazing can be identified under where by livestock can graze woodlands without detriment to its long term existence.