Habitat restoration work is being undertaken by Forest Enterprise, Scottish Natural Heritage, The National Trust, The Countryside Council for Wales and a large number of private landowners, and includes the following:

• Clearance of highly invasive rhododendron and introduced commercial conifers from oakwood habitats.
• The felling of introduced broadleaved trees.
• The reduction of deer grazing pressure through fencing and increased culls to allow natural regeneration.
• The reduction of stock grazing pressure through fencing.
• Silvicultural management to improve age-structure and diversity
• The improvement of paths to minimise damage to oakwood habitat through recreational activities.

An assessment of the age-structure of selected oakwoods and the prediction of the potential for expanding woodland habitats using the Forestry Commission's new Ecological Site Classification is being carried out by Forest Research, an agency of the Forestry Commission.

Additionally integrated management and monitoring plans are being drawn up for each site by the countryside agencies, together with landscape-scale deer management plans for sites in Scotland. To benefit other woodland managers detailed guidance on oakwood establishment and regeneration is being produced.