Woodland Meetings
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Pond Wood – South Eastern Division
Using heavy horses in forestry as a business and managing Ancient Semi Natural Woodland.
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Wildwoods – Somerset and Dorset Division
This is a small broadleaved woodland with hazel understory managed for charcoal and firewood with an emphasis on adding value and wildlife.
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Berry Hall – East Anglia Divison
A visit to Berry Hall, looking at sustainable silviculture in 2021.
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Milkwelburn Woods – North Eastern Division
A PAWS site owned by Durham Wildlife Trust, who have been progressively restoring the woodland and removing conifer in order to improve the wildlife habitat. The Divisional AGM will also take place during the day.
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Broomhill Woods and Huntley Estate – Gloucestershire Division
In the morning, we'll visit an RFS Excellence in Forestry award winning woodland. Please meet at May Hill Village Hall for the onward journey to Broomhill Woods. Lunch and AGM will be back at May Hill village hall. In the afternoon, there will be a visit to Castle Hill woods in Huntley Estate to visit and talk about scheduled ancient monument managements in woodland environments.
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Delamere Forest – North West Midlands Division
Our visit to Delamere Forest will include restructuring to counter disease and pests, alternative species, meres and mosses project and managing operations in a busy Forest.
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Aveland Trees – Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Division
This evening visit to Aveland Trees will look at farm woodland creation and thinning by girdling.
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Potters Chase Wood – Home Counties
This is a joint meeting with the London & Middlesex Division. We will visit a new 68-hectare woodland creation project, a mixed landscape of pasture fields, broadleaf woodland, hedgerows and shelter belts, owned by Hertfordshire County Council and managed by their Rural Estates Department. Over the next few years 23 hectares of new woodland will be planted on the previously grazed pastures, funded through the Forestry Commission’s Woodland Carbon Fund.
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Ransford Sawmills and The Hurst Woodland – Herefordshire Division
We will visit this modern integrated sawmill operations in the morning and then move onto The Hurst, a commercial investment timber woodland. Numbers may need to be limited so an early booking is advisable.
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Greenacres Chiltern and Hodgemoor Woods – Oxon and Buck Division
In the morning, we'll visit to a natural woodland burial site in existing mature forest and see positive woodland management alongside natural burials. In the afternoon, we'll look at SSSI and ancient woodland with a variety of soil types, followed by a discussion on small scale forest operations and working in a SSSI.
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Newton Ferrers Estate – South Western Division
We will look at bringing undermanaged broadleaved woodland into management with help from Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier grant. Particular attention will be given to conservation considerations, ash dieback and roadside tree safety.
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Eling Estate – Southern Division
We will take a tour looking at woodland management issues across the estate including an ancient Hill Fort which is surrounded by woodland and discuss clear felling and replanting as well as removal of trees from the monument itself. We will also discuss the work the estate does with a school for severely Autistic children.
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