The Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) provided incentives for
people to create and manage woodlands on sites all over Great Britain. The
Forestry Commission paid grants for establishing and looking after woodlands
and forests.
To qualify for grant the applicant must have met the
standards of environmental protection and practice set out in the Forestry
Commission’s guidelines.
WGS2 operated between June 1991 and September 1994. It was
replaced by WGS3
Updates to scheme boundaries and grant aided areas were
incorporated into the dataset on a regular basis until the end of 2012. No
further changes will be made after this time.
For more detailed information please see the metadata record on
Scotland's SpatialData.gov.scot Metadata Portal.