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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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Cutting is warm work
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15/10/2017 - only a few hazel stools remain in the current
coppice section but they are packed with large poles. When the
poles are growing close to one another it is warm work, especially
with a chain saw, to cut them down without getting tangled up.
We cut just two stools on this session, but they were
monsters. Not much more to do here, a largest elm to fell and
a couple more hazel and we're all done.
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08/10/2017 - the leaves are slowly falling in the woods, but still
many more to go before the trees are bare. Time enough for
some sunlit, colourful shots of maple, oak and ash leaves on the
wood floor, but not today.
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08/10/2017 - the coppice section on the main
ride continues to grow in size with four more hazel stools cut
today. About five more, plus a large tree, to go and this
section will be finished.
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Conservation
work party dates for the 2017-18 season are:
29 October
12th & 26th November
10th & 24 December
7th & 21st January 2018
4th & 18th February
4th & 18th March
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Last Update
15/10/2017
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Today we cut more hazel in the main
ride's coppice section. Another couple of sessions should see
this bit finished. Click here
to see what we have achieved 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 windy day in
Soar Mill Cove, Devon, thinking about swimming (we didn't).
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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