A warm day with a variety of tasks left most of today's 16
volunteers pleasantly tired. We worked in a small copse/plantation of
beech trees just to the right of the drive as you approach the house.
This had been planted some years ago. Planting them close together
helped create strong, upright trunks as they competed for light and they had
been protected from Lyme Park's deer by high wire fencing. The group
removed the deer fence and helped put up tree guards round the best trees.
Over the next few years the rangers will fell the other trees in the
copse to leave the specimens
standing alone as imposing giants in the future.
Removing the deer fence meant digging up
the fence posts, some of which were easier to get out than others. There
was also a good amount of already felled timber to drag out to be trailered
away and made into firewood, with the smaller brash formed into habitat piles.
Other tasks carried out were cutting down thistles, clearing several
paths of overhanging branches and some wood chopping by hand.
Mick
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