England Woodland Management Status Raster Map for 2012

England's Forestry Commission produced a raster map indicating the management status of woodlands as of 31 December 2012. The data integrates administrative records from multiple grant schemes and the Public Forest Estate to classify woodland areas as actively managed or unmanaged. The denominator for the performance indicator calculation was the total woodland area from the National Forest Inventory.

Use Cases

• Calculate the percentage of actively managed woodland in England based on the defined administrative criteria.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of managed versus unmanaged woodlands for conservation planning.
• Validate or correlate forestry grant scheme participation with on-the-ground management status.
• Serve as a baseline layer for temporal studies of woodland management trends.

Strengths

• Provides a clear binary classification (0/1) for management status across all woodland in England.
• Uses a defined 25-meter cell size for consistent spatial resolution.
• Integrates data from eight specific administrative sources listed in the description.

Limitations

• The definition of 'actively managed' is limited to specific grant schemes and licenses, excluding other potential management activities.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Forestry Commission (England), via the Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Integration of administrative data from grant schemes, felling licenses, and Public Forest Estate records, rasterized against the National Forest Inventory.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2012.

Freshness

Data is a snapshot for 31 December 2012; update frequency is not specified.

Geography

England, United Kingdom.