Hartland helps land managers, estates, and landowners make evidence-led decisions about deer, grey squirrel and other forestry and agricultural pests — with practical assessment, planning, and training grounded in habitat condition.
Education for land managers
This guide is designed to help land managers recognise the signs of deer and grey squirrel pressure, understand why it matters, and see how a measured response can protect woodland, crops, and habitat over time.
Notice the signs
Look for browsing, bark damage, tracks, and changes in regeneration.
Understand the impact
Connect what you see with the woodland, crops, and habitats you want to protect.
Choose a proportionate response
Use evidence to decide whether monitoring, protection, or management is appropriate.
Species focus · Deer
Deer are an important part of the British landscape. But when browsing pressure is sustained, young trees may fail to establish, crops can be affected, and sensitive habitats can lose their diversity. Start by learning what to look for on your own ground.
Learn about deer management
Species focus · Grey squirrel
Grey squirrels can cause bark damage in vulnerable broadleaf woodland, affecting the quality and future resilience of a timber crop. Learn how to spot the evidence, understand the risk, and consider responsible next steps for your trees.
Learn about grey squirrel managementImpact assessment and management service
Hartland provides impact assessments and the follow-on wildlife-management service needed to respond to the findings. We document what is visible on the ground, agree practical priorities, and work with you through management and monitoring.
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Walk the ground, record signs, and identify the habitats, crops, or trees under pressure through a Hartland impact assessment.
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Interpret the evidence against your wider objectives, woodland condition, and any relevant grant-process requirements.
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Put the findings into action with proportionate wildlife management, protection measures, and monitoring points.
Hartland can work alongside your grant process by preparing site evidence, clarifying management needs, and supporting practical delivery. Programme availability, eligibility, and requirements must be checked for each project.
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Grant process support
Hartland provides the impact assessment and practical wildlife-management service that can sit alongside grant planning. We help document site condition, explain the management need, and support delivery and monitoring where appropriate — while eligibility, scheme availability, and final decisions remain with the relevant authorities.
Impact assessment
Hartland records the condition of the site and the evidence of wildlife pressure.
Management delivery
We turn the findings into practical, proportionate deer and grey squirrel management.
Grant-process support
Clear evidence and a management plan can support informed conversations with advisers and scheme administrators.
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From evidence to delivery
Bring Hartland in to assess the pressure on your land, plan the right response, and deliver practical deer and grey squirrel management alongside your wider grant and woodland objectives.
Impact assessments · Deer and grey squirrel management · Grant-process support · UK-wide service
