Managing your forest
Coudert can support and advise you through every stage of forest management
Helping you understand your existing woodland
- Identification and demarcation of your land; classifying tree stock varieties, providing inventories of your tree stock
- GPS measurements of the total surface area including roads and tracks
- Computerised mapping of tree stock, tracks, established forestry infrastructure and any notable attributes
- Analysis of potential safety issues relating to trees
- Reviewing any environmental, landscaping or wildlife considerations
Managing your forest in a sustainable manner
- Planning a forest management strategy which includes any necessary interventions and improvements.
- Writing documents required for sustainable management - Basic Management Guides, Codes for Good Forestry Practices, Regulatory Models for Management
- Rolling management contracts
Making the most of your timber products
- Taking timber consignments to market; stock inventories, identifying saleable timber, estimating quantity and potential value, direct sales, sales by restricted tender, bundled sales
- Supervising timber extraction including site and supplier management
- Evaluating the wider potential of forest; hunting, recreation, public use, environmental opportunities, environmentally managing on site water sources
Developing your woodland
- General advice, georeferencing, work plans, competition between firms, supervising and managing timber extraction sites
- Project management of forestry activity – cleaning of site, reforestation, creating access tracks and timber storage areas
- Design and project management of specific improvements (wildlife development and protection, landscaping)