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Welcome to the Waresley and Gransden
Woods website
This website is dedicated to providing
information on all topics relating to the Waresley and Gransden Woods reserves of
The Wildlife
Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
For directions to visit the reserve follow this link.
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A Dangerous Tree
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27/09/2020 - a splintered oak branch greeted us on our visit to the
reserve today. This large limb is hanging over the wood's main
ride. There is also another, barely attached branch balanced
above it. I have sign posted this hazard and ask visitors to
not enter the taped area. The Wildlife Trust are going to cut
the limb free during the week commencing 05/10/2020.
Stay safe and respect social distancing
while in the reserve - Graham.
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27/09/2020 - a bit of a delayed start to conservation work this year,
partly due to taking a late week's holiday in September.
However, today we marked out this year's main ride side coppice
section on Howard's ride. It's a scallop shaped section,
containing as usual a number of large overgrown hazel stools.
What this space for developments.
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06/09/2020 - I've finally got round to updating the website. August
and September have been a bit hectic for us as we had to squeeze in
not one but two holiday breaks. Between breaks the high winds
meant a flurry of path clearing where limbs or trees had been blown
down. On our visit on the 6th September no less than three
trees had to be dealt with. With the chainsaw being
temporarily out of action, I had to revert to muscle power with
dad's trusty old saw, it never fails to get the job done
(eventually).
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30/08/2020 -as autumn draws nearer the woodland fruits have made an appearance.
Clockwise from top left these are the hawthorn's haws, elderberries,
the pink fruits of a spindle tree in Brownes' Pieces and finally
blackberries at various stages of ripeness.
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Conservation
work parties have now started and will run until the end of March 2021
Contact
me if you are interested in joining us
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Last Conservation Update
27/09/2020
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Another year, another year's
conservation season starts. The section above will be focus of
our efforts to begin with. Last cut in 2008 it contains a good
selection of large hazel stools. Click here
to see our progress so far.
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