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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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Back to the Reserve
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09/01/2022 - a sunny return to the reserve after a break over the
festive season. Today we concentrated on clearing around the
clump of silver birch trees in readiness for their felling later on
in the week. Felling will open up this part of the coppice
section, encouraging regrowth on the woodland floor.
Please
respect the Trust's wishes that visitors keep to the paths.
As the wood's paths are now very muddy and slippery, Wellington
or walking boots are essential when visiting - Graham.
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19/12/2021 - as this was the last work party before Christmas, we
had festive refreshments when breaking for tea. Our trusty
Kelly Kettle was on water boiling duty. Luckily we were able
to find enough dry twigs to keep it going.
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19/12/2021 - today we held our combined conservation and Christmas
work party. Thanks to sterling efforts by the volunteers, we've
managed to make a good inroad into clearing the new coppice
section. Some of the remaining larger trees, will be felled by
chainsaw in January.
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13/12/2021 - with the conservation work in the box junction completed,
it's time to move onto the next coppicing area. This next ride
side section is opposite the glade. Today I began by marking out
how far into the wood we shall be clearing, as shown by the line of
branches on the ground to the right, in the image below.
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Sunday
conservation
work parties are now running once a fortnight until March 2022
Contact
me for more details if you are interested in joining us
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Last Conservation Update
09/01/2022
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The coppice section shown above is
along the ride and opposite the glade. This section was last cut in
2009 and since then its hazel stools have grown sufficiently to
begin shading out ground flora. Click here
or the on the image to open the conservation work webpage to see our progress so far.
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