Summary
The Scottish Forestry Strategy sets out an ambition to increase Scotland’s woodland cover.
The Strategy identifies a number of woodland creation priorities for Scotland:
- helping to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration
- timber and fuel production
- restoring lost habitats and adapting to climate change
- forest habitat networks and new native woodlands
- helping to manage ecosystem services
- sustainable flood management, and protection of soil and water resources
- underpinning a sustainable forest products industry
- consistent and reliable timber supply for timber processing and wood fuel investments
- supporting rural development
- supporting local businesses and farm diversification
- providing community benefits
- provision of welcoming and well-managed woodlands in and around communities and where health and community need is greatest
- enhancing urban areas and improving landscapes
- improving derelict, underused and neglected land
- improving degraded or unsightly environments and diversifying farmed landscapes
