Forestry Commission (FC)

A non-departmental public body (see quango) established in 1919 in response to the continued clearance and depletion of Great Britain’s forests and woodlands, at a time when wood was a strategic raw material.

Arboricultural Association (AA),
forest (current meaning),
forest (history),
Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF),
National Forest,
Public Forest Estate,
Royal Forestry Society,
Small Woods Association (SWA),
UK Forestry Standard,
woodland (definitions)

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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