Lead contacts for AWPAs

 

Promotion and advice in AWPAs will be through a mixture of joint partnership and Forestry Commission working. Until partnerships are fully established, lead contacts will be:

Exmoor
Graeme McVittie, 01626 890666  

Dartmoor (including Tamar Valley)
Neil Mackenzie, 01626 890666

Richard Paton, 01626 890666

Cotswolds
Wayne Barnes, 01594 810983

Partnerships
Individual partnership working in each AWPA will differ slightly according to local circumstances:

Exmoor - Together with Exmoor National Park Authority and English Nature, we are currently in the process of setting up an Ancient Woodland Project covering the Exmoor priority area which will extend beyond the National Park boundaries map. The aim is that the arrangement will mean that the Exmoor National Park Authority Forestry Officer will carry out Forestry Commission grants and licences duties in the area in addition to the recruitment of a Project Assistant. 

Dartmoor - The Dartmoor Restoring Ancient Woodlands Project was set up in 2005 as a partnership between Dartmoor National Park Authority, the Woodland Trust, Natural England and the Forestry Commission. The Project covers the Dartmoor National Park boundary, whereas the Ancient Woodland Priority Area lies around the southern fringes of the Park from Tavistock to Chudleigh map.  The Project continues the ancient woodland work that the National Park Authority have been carrying out and has initially been identifying owners and delivering management plans through the Woodland Planning Grant process. The Forestry Commission Woodland Officer will work with the Project to achieve its outcomes.

Cotswolds – to be confirmed

Over the coming months we will be agreeing an action plan with our partners to take forward each of the Ancient Woodland Priority Areas with targeted publicity and promotion.

In addition we will be looking to promote landscape scale deer management with the help of the Deer Initiative.