Coppicing
In cases such as the reinstatement of block rotation methods of managing old coppiced woodland, the woodland does start to pay for the work put in.
Small compartments (or blocks of the woodland) are harvested, leaving a number of Hazel stools uncut for wildlife. Once the felling is done, cut roundwood is stacked, ready for collection, and smaller branch wood made into habitat piles.
Within a couple of years the woodland is back in rotation (containing compartments ranging from recently cut, to ready to harvest), as it had been a 100 years ago, producing wood to be used in a number of woodland crafts as well as the production of charcoal.
Coppiced woodland (especially Hazel) is the preferred habitat of the Dormouse (one of our many endangered species), and the mixed age structure of the woodland means they have ample cover and food (the nut munching Dormouse, may actually spent three quarters of its life asleep, lucky things).