However, it should be noted that this figure includes a recent three year period of reduced activity as result of foot and mouth disease and uncertainty about the effects of Common Agricultural Policy reform.The average area that was re-stocked following felling operations in the last ten years, between 1995 and 2004, the most recent year for which we have figures, was just less than 3,300 hectares per annum.Incentives for private sector new planting are offered through Forestry Commission Scotland’s...