Natural Resources Wales manages the Welsh public forest estate on behalf of Welsh Government. Forest operations are carried out sustainably under the Forestry Stewardship Council Certification Scheme. We sustainably harvest circa 850k m3 of wood every year from the Welsh Public forest estate reducing dependency on imported wood, providing low-carbon materials, fuel and energy. We encourage the development of healthy and competitive timber harvesting and wood processing industries across Wales and market our timber in such a way as to optimise our financial return from timber sales whilst delivering the objectives of individual Forest Resource Plans.
