Coppicing is the process where wood is harvesting in a cyclical fashion from woodlands. The wood can either be cut and dried as logs for woodstoves, or chipped or pelleted to feed appropriate central heating boilers. Since the coppice wood regrows using CO2 from the atmosphere, the only emissions associated with burning it are those released during processing and transport. It is therefore a low-carbon heating fuel.
Coppicing also produces useful materials for building and crafts, and used in rotation makes a variety of habitats, so good for biodiversity.
External links
http://handbooks.btcv.org.uk/handbooks/content/chapter/690 – the BTCV guide to coppicing