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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 the reserve follow this link.
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Hazel Layering
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27/10/2019 - as the ground was soft with all the recent rain I
thought today would be a good time to do a bit of hazel
layering. This is where we try and grow new hazel trees from
existing ones. A pole from the original hazel stool is cut,
bent over and buried in the ground, where it will hopefully root.
This is particularly
needed in this season's coppice section as hazel coverage is patchy
and limited to one edge of the section. With a bit of luck
layering will allow us to double the number of hazels and extend
their coverage much more. The poles left standing in the image
below are all potential candidates for this treatment.
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13/10/2019 - rainy weather again this Sunday so didn't fancy the
trek into the woods to the coppice section. Instead we spent
more time on the car park hedge, close enough to shelter in the car
when the rain got too much. The hedge now is cut for this
year. We have also made a good start on cutting back the large
bramble bush in this area to more manageable dimensions.
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05/10/2019 - on
this visit we were able to cut down four more hazel stools in the
box junction coppice section. This made quite a
difference. As with our last visit, poles have been left on
each stool to give us plenty of choice for layering later.
Just a couple of large stools and several small ones left to coppice
here now.
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Conservation
work party dates are:
3rd & 17th Nov
1st, 15th & 29th Dec
12th & 26 Jan 2020
9th & 23rd Feb
8th & 22nd Mar
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Last Update
30/10/2019
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Both sides of the car park hedge are
now cut. We have spent two sessions working on a coppice section in the
woods. Click here
to see our progress so far.
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Want
to see what the reserves looked like in December 1945? Well
you can now using Google Earth. Click here
for more details.
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To learn more about the
history of Waresley parish and the amenities it has to offer, click
on this link
to visit the village's website.
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| A pic on the beach
from this year's holiday in Devon. As usual we have had
to go incognito, Barbara in shades whilst I'm barely disguised
in a funny hat.
If you have any
questions about the woods, require further information on
work parties or wish to comment upon this website, you can contact me, Graham Moorby, Volunteer Warden at:
graham@waresleywood.co.uk
@grahammoorby
#waresleywood
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