Promotion and advice in AWPAs will be through a mixture of joint partnership and Forestry Commission working. Lead FC contacts are:
Exmoor
Graeme McVittie, 01626 890666
Dartmoor (including Tamar Valley)
Roger Ford, 01626 892866
Richard Paton, 01626 892860
Cotswolds
James Fry, 01594 810983
Cranborne Chase
Ian Briscoe, 01672 511767
Richard Preston, 01626 892853
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 – Forestry Commission have formed a steering group with Cotswolds AONB, Natural England and the Woodland Trust to take this project forward.
Cranborne Chase - A project has been agreed and over the summer of 2009, a partnership including Cranborne Chase AONB, the Woodland Trust, Natural England and Wiltshire Council will be taking this project forward.
In addition we will be looking to promote landscape scale deer management with the help of the Deer Initiative.
