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Deputy Surveyor: Stream Restoration and Fish

At September’s Verderers Court, the Deputy Surveyor, Bruce Rothnie used his optional Presentment slot to discuss Stream Restoration’s potential benefits and impacts on ...

Verderers View: Leaving The EU: The Implication For Higher Level Stewardship Funding

At September’s Verderers Court, in his Announcements and Decisions, the Official Verderer, Dominic May, updated the Court on the fate of funding for High Level Stewardship, p...

Forest Design Plan – next steps

NFA Statement to the National Park Authority Meeting 14th July 2016 [The Forest Design Plan is both the Forestry Commission’s long term vision for the Inclosures, and the Felling L...

Forest Design Plan

NFA Presentment for the Verderers Court 15th June 2016 [The Forest Design Plan is both the Forestry Commission’s long term vision for the Inclosures, and the Felling License and Re...

NFA Habitat & Landscape 2015-16

Highlighting tomorrow’s NFA AGM, further amended excerpts from our Habitat and Landscape Committee’s Annual Report Our ecologists have had a very busy year, and I hope they w...

NFA Fungi Campaign 2015-16

With the upcoming NFA AGM this Saturday, we look back at some of this past years works. Here is an amended excerpt from our Habitat and Landscape Committee’s Annual Report Af...

Fungi Forage Ban on New Forest SSSI and Code of Conduct

NFA Presentment to September 2015 Verderers Court — The NFA reveal the source of the 1.5kg limit, and the flawed logic that allowed the FC to incorrectly apply this as a dail...

NFA Call to Ban Fungi Picking on the Crown Lands of the New Forest

Commercial picking on the New Forest is an unacceptable theft from the amenity of the autumn display, and damaging to the habitat. Commercial pickers harvest indiscriminately, taki...

Presentment to The Verderers: NFA Response to the Independent Panel on Forestry

Presentment to The Court of Verderers. Wednesday 20th July 2011Peter Roberts. Chairman. New Forest Association. The New Forest Association asks that the Verderers consider supporti...
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