Five of our volunteers made their way to the meeting point in Royden Park sharing cars from Styal.
We spent the day with two Rangers and half a volunteer from Merseyside (well one volunteer for half the day) clearing European gorse from near a drainage ditch. If the rangers knew exactly where the ditch was they could have used a tractor with a flail, to clear the gorse but it was hidden by the vegetation so this time it had to be done by hand.
The gorse was burn on a controlled fire - which was on corrugated ion to protect the heathland flora. The rarer western gorse was left well alone.
Once the gorse is clear the other job will be sorting out the drainage but again - that can be done with a machine once the landscape if visible...
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