Tree species

Species named in the detailed felling and proposed-restocking tables extracted from archived felling applications. Rankings use the hectares attributed to each species in those tables.

Canonical species and groups
75
Felling area represented
11,570 ha
Restocking area represented
9,366 ha

Year-on-year activity

Proposed hectares grouped by application registration year. Where the register has no registration date, the first archived date is used. The current year is partial.

Year Felling apps Felling ha YoY Restocking apps Restocking ha YoY
2026 324 2,683.2 -46% 286 1,974.4 -51%
2025 625 4,934.6 +32% 538 4,021.7 +27%
2024 502 3,728.4 +1715% 428 3,170.6 +1631%
2023 25 205.4 +1029% 24 183.1 +1003%
2022 3 18.2 — 3 16.6 —

Species ranking

Ranked by combined proposed felling and restocking area.

Rank Species Felling apps Felling ha Restocking apps Restocking ha Combined ha
1 Sitka spruce 1,076 7,412 555 4,211 11,623
2 Scots pine 401 822 345 806 1,629
3 Norway spruce 287 466 342 840 1,306
4 Lodgepole pine 119 806 41 225 1,032
5 Mixed native broadleaves 33 56.4 319 767 824
6 Mixed broadleaves 266 188 311 552 740
7 Mixed conifers 252 449 58 131 580
8 Douglas fir 126 187 132 296 483
9 Birch 79 57.3 250 275 333
10 Japanese larch 140 230 3 22.5 252
11 Hybrid larch 149 224 15 16.9 241
12 Downy birch 9 5.7 72 196 201
13 Larch 140 181 8 12.4 193
14 Oak 65 18.2 269 141 159
15 Silver birch 30 20.6 197 97.2 118
16 Other firs 3 62.1 3 54.4 116
17 European larch 80 103 13 10.2 113
18 Sycamore 150 50.6 109 56.1 107
19 Sessile oak 7 2.3 122 98 100
20 Rowan 4 0.1 295 81.3 81.4
21 Alder 19 6.4 153 74.2 80.6
22 Beech 116 35.7 118 42.8 78.5
23 Ash 139 68.7 15 5 73.7
24 Willow 18 5.2 79 47.1 52.3
25 Hazel 4 0.5 172 51.3 51.8
26 Other 6 4.3 14 26.1 30.4
27 Other conifers 6 0.8 6 28.3 29.1
28 Aspen 2 0.7 82 27.3 28
29 Western hemlock 25 13.4 16 14.2 27.5
30 Grand fir 30 23.2 6 2.4 25.6
31 Pedunculate oak 2 0.1 41 21.8 21.8
32 Noble fir 25 18.4 7 3.1 21.5
33 Poplar 26 15.4 4 4.3 19.7
34 Wild cherry (Gean) 3 0.1 106 18.3 18.4
35 Hawthorn 0 0 102 17.7 17.7
36 Western red cedar 12 2.9 18 13.6 16.5
37 Goat willow 4 1.8 29 11.2 12.9
38 Woody shrubs 3 0.2 44 11.8 11.9
39 Macedonian pine 0 0 2 11.3 11.3
40 Cherry 9 1 34 5.5 6.5
41 European silver fir 10 0.9 6 5.3 6.2
42 Fir 5 5.5 0 0 5.5
43 Mountain pine 1 5.5 0 0 5.5
44 Omorika spruce 0 0 1 5.4 5.4
45 Corsican pine 5 2.8 5 1.4 4.2
46 Spruce 6 4 1 0 4
47 Norway maple 5 1.9 8 1.9 3.7
48 Other broadleaves 1 0.1 11 3.1 3.2
49 Blackthorn 0 0 17 3 3
50 Holly 0 0 39 2.7 2.7
51 Pine 3 2.5 0 0 2.5
52 Hornbeam 0 0 16 2.3 2.3
53 Lime 12 0.8 10 1.5 2.2
54 Leyland cypress 10 1.9 2 0.2 2.2
55 Other spruces 3 2 1 0 2
56 Red oak 0 0 3 1.7 1.7
57 Sweet chestnut 2 0.2 8 1.2 1.4
58 Whitebeam 2 0 6 1.3 1.3
59 Crab apple 0 0 18 1.2 1.2
60 Elm 14 0.8 3 0.3 1.1
61 Yew 0 0 6 1 1
62 Horse chestnut 2 0 4 1 1
63 Wych elm 1 0 7 0.9 0.9
64 Bird cherry 3 0.1 11 0.7 0.8
65 Walnut 0 0 1 0.8 0.8
66 Lawson cypress 6 0.7 1 0 0.7
67 Field maple 1 0 5 0.6 0.7
68 Japanese cedar 0 0 3 0.5 0.5
69 Small leaved lime 0 0 4 0.3 0.3
70 Bishop pine 1 0.2 0 0 0.2
71 Ponderosa pine 1 0.2 0 0 0.2
72 White willow 0 0 1 0.2 0.2
73 Grey alder 0 0 2 0.2 0.2
74 Redwood 0 0 1 0 0
75 Black poplar 1 0 0 0 0

Figures are applicant proposals, not completed work. Submitted labels are harmonised against Standingwire's administered species catalogue. Thinning rows are not counted as felling area.