Nick Evans

 

Crop Surveyor and Cost Centre Manager, Technical Services Unit

Email: nick.evans@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1350 728638
Fax: +44 (0)1350 728638

Address:
Forest Research Surveys Scotland
Forest House
Dunkeld
Perthshire
PH8 0JR
Scotland

Nick joined the Forestry Commission in 1974 working as a harvesting operator before joining Sherwood forest as foreman in 1981. During this time he completed City & Guilds in forestry at Newton Rigg and Inverness college. From Sherwood he moved to Suffolk Forest District as a forest management, private woodlands, nursery, and plant health forester.

He has worked within a forest survey environment for the last 19 years, originally in Forest Surveys branch and latterly as part of Forest Research.

Current role

Crop Surveyor and Cost Centre Manager, Technical Services Unit

• Responsible for crop survey program Scotland and Kielder
• Cost centre manager for crop survey (Scotland) and Site survey (UK).

Current programmes

• Forest Condition Survey
  Field assessor - assess level 1 plots (Central Scotland area) to international standard
• Intensive long term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  Field operative - data recording, sampling and maintenance
• Crop survey Scotland
  Manager Award and supervise survey contracts
• Utility survey
  Field surveyor - development of field methodology & training to surveyors
• Mensuration plots
  Field surveyor - plot assessment and measurement
• National Inventory of Woodlands & Trees (2)
  Operator - photographic interpretation and digitising of woodland types
• Isle of Man forest re-survey
  Survey manager.

Affiliations and achievements

• Section author for Forestry Commission Survey Handbook
• English text correction for Forestry & Game Management Research Institute Czech Republic.