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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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What a Smart Hedge (even if
I say so myself)
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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.
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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22/09/2019 - today was our first hazel coppicing session of
this year's conservation season. We're working in one of the
quadrants of the "box junction" in Waresley wood.
First job was to clear away the ground cover so that we could reach
the hazel stools. This was done both by brush cutter and
cutting by hand. There's still a bit of bramble to be cut,
which I'll finish on my next visit.
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22/09/2019 - We'll also be leaving as
many hazel poles as possible for layering, but not until the ground
gets a bit softer. The aim of this layering is to increase the
number of hazel stools in this section.
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Conservation
work party dates are:
20 Oct
(cancelled)
3rd & 17th Nov
1st, 15th & 29th Dec
12th & 26 Jan 2020
9th & 23rd Feb
8th & 22nd Mar
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Last Update
13/10/2019
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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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