The guidance notes held here were previously available to applicants to the Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme (SFGS) for reference purposes. They relate to forestry in general, with some specific references to the SFGS.
- Guidance note 7: Native Woodland Condition Survey (PDF 119k)
- Guidance note 9: Forest operations and badger setts (PDF 426k)
- Guidance note 11: Deer and fencing (PDF 80k)
- Alternative deer fencing in core capercaillie and black grouse habitats (PDF 173k)
- Guidance note 12: Management plans for semi-natural woodland under Woodland Grant Scheme (PDF 169k)
- Guidance note 13: Treeline woodlands (PDF 34k)
- Guidance note 16: Determining the need for an Environmental Impact Assessment (PDF 115k)
- Guidance note 18: Appropriate assessments of implications for conservation of a Natura 2000 site (PDF 126k)
- Guidance note 19: Derelict and reclaimed land (PDF 160k)
- Guidance note 20: Forest Habitat Networks and SFGS expansions grants (PDF 138k)
- Guidance note 23: Landscape design and presentation for small woodlands (PDF 328k)
- Guidance note 24: Developing community involvement and SFGS (PDF 25k)
- Guidance note 25: Reduction in deer numbers stewardship grants (s2) and SFGS (PDF 373k)
- Annex to guidance note 25: Example of a deer management plan (PDF 234k)
- Guidance note 26: Ancient woodland sites and SFGS (PDF 93k)
- Guidance note 27: SFGS - prescriptions appropriate to Sites of Special Scientific Interest and Natura 2000 sites (PDF 101k)
- Guidance note 28: SFGS application and mapping standards (PDF 2.5Mb)
- Guidance note 29: SFGS and WIAT Challenge Fund applications (Urban and peri-urban woodland surveying and management planning ) (PDF 153k)
- Guidance note 30: SFGS grants for S4 and Biodiversity Action Plan priority species (PDF 249k)
- Guidance note 31: Forest operations and wildlife protection (PDF 48k)
- Guidance note 32: Forest operations and birds in Scottish forests (PDF 119k)
- Guidance note 33: Forest operations and red squirrels in Scottish forests (PDF 231k)
- Guidance note 34: Forest operations and European protected species in Scottish forests (PDF 53k)
- Guidance note 35: Assessing Marginal Sites for New Native Woodland (PDF 30k)
- Guidance note - WIAT surveying and management planning (PDF 153k)
- Native habitat action plans Scotland (PDF 280k)
- Upland birchwoods in Scotland (PDF 163k)
- Golden Eagles and forestry (PDF 2.4Mb)
- Managing forests for white-tailed eagles (PDF 1.9Mb)
- Guidance note 36: Rhododendron Technical Guidance (PDF 1.3Mb)
