On Sunday 14th July three volunteers made their way to Erddig to join the Merseyside group. The task set was scrub clearance in an area backing onto the Felin Puleston Car Park. It was a fine day and Merseyside had a fair few volunteers so we became quite a large group.
After the usual ranger talk about the task and health and safety advice etc we set to the task of removing lower branches of trees and scrub clearance.
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| Overgrown site (before clearance) |
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| Branch removal |
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| Cutting back vegetation |
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| Site cleared (facing car park) |
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| Site cleared (facing river) |
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| Branches pile! |
By lunchtime we had cleared the area so we moved onto the second task of balsam pulling. The ranger guided us to an area at the side of the river behind the car park that we have not worked in before. Some of the balsam were very tall!
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| Very tall balsam! |
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| More tall balsam! |
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| Balsam pulling by the river |
All in all it was great day and we had the added treat of accessing the lovely toilet block at Felin Puleston that is normally locked up.... I just had to sneak a photo (for those people that might never see it).
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| The lovely ladies restroom |
Denise
Worksite Leader
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