Kathryn is working 12 hour days at the minute, so I am in charge of walking the dogs, which means a daily trip around Treragin Wood. This gives me time to look and think and plan ahead. And see a bit more of the wildlife, not having a chain-saw going to frighten everything off! This
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A couple of events our south west readers may like to know about. North Hill stages its annual Woodland Craft and Beanpole Fayre in a few days time, on Saturday May 17th. details on the poster below. Simon has been befiore and it promises a good day out. Also a group of local landowners and
Nature conservation first became a recognised activity around the beginning of the twentieth century, with Wicken Fen becoming the first nature reserve when purchased by the National Trust in 1895. The forerunner of the County Wildlife Trusts, the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves was founded in. The name gives something of a clue
I’ve been having some fun and games over the winter, some on the ground and also working my way through various different pieces of red tape. We are planning to improve the tracks in the wood this summer, and this has required the following permissions: • Land drainage consent: for two stream crossings. The Devon
Simon travels a bit further afield…… When you think of mountains in Sicily one pictures Mount Etna, steaming and foaming over the entire north east of the island, but move a few miles to the west into the limestone hills of the Nebrodi and Madonie Regional Parks and you can still find remnants of ancient
All our woods are soggy, but holding up well to the winds. Treragin, however, has seen around a dozen Southern Beech blow over, with a couple seeming to lean with each new band of gales, no doubt their root plates partly loosened by the very wet ground. I think I’ll wait to a general improvement
The trial badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire ended some weeks ago, and the controversy around them still rages. In the last few days policing costs have been revealed as being nearly £2.5 million, over half the cost of the actual culls themselves. A colleague and I did see a badger monitoring group gathering in
The government have announced some administrative changes in the last month, with some staff administering Environmental Stewardship and Woodland Grant Schemes moving to the Rural Payments Agency from Natural England and from the Forestry Commission. The role of the Forestry Commission’s woodland officers remains the same for now. The future of the English Woodland Grant
Well what else should I write about for my last blog of the year? ! When we planted Treragin Wood we included 4,000 Christmas trees as a one off crop, in between the broadleaves. Some succumbed to rabbits, and some never had the right shape, but I probably sold half of them, many through the
The reason the web-site has been very quiet for the last month is because I have been rather busy. Most of the last month has been spent working for Dartmoor National Park, helping them with a Heritage Lottery funded project. A rush job, as they have to submit detailed plans for their stage 2 bid
