Forestry Commission Wales has lifted its temporary embargo on issuing licences for felling larch.
The embargo over the winter was part of the ongoing fight against the spread of ramorum disease of larch, caused by the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum.
Larch trees need to be in full leaf for symptoms of ramorum disease to be identified and now the trees have flushed with new needles, any infected trees can be identified before felling.
Ramorum disease does not harm the timber and there is no risk of spreading the disease from wood that has been processed.
Britain’s first outbreak of Ramorum disease was discovered in larch in south-west England in 2009. It was then found in larch in Welsh Assembly woodlands in South Wales in June last year.
