Today is The International Day of Forests. To celebrate it, this article delves into the intertwined story of woodlands and ourselves in Britain and how that story must be continued for their survival. In the past there has been a notion that Britain would have at one stage been covered from head to toe in forest. This forest was known as the Wildwood and was thought to have sprung up after the last ice age during a period of climatic stability known as the Atlantic Period (7300 to 4500 BC)....

My name is Chris Wilmoth and I manage a coppice woodland on Exmoor. My mission is to re-position woodland as the beating heart of a...