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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

11th January 2011 ... Weekly Volunteers

Present:
John, Ron, Keith and Martin
Mike delivered some manure.

Activities:
- On South heath, we had two bonfires of the coppiced gorse, from last week.
- Went to the ride between the roller stand and the Ride Junction, NE of the cattle pens.  Here we re-pollarded some of silver birch and also coppiced some of the leggy gorse.
- further along on the nw side of the ride, we cut down a large number of small pine saplings.  We left the brash in situ, as they were pretty small and unobtrusive.
- Late afternoon we went up to the mature heath, and coppiced some of the extremely leggy and damaged gorse there.  We intend to have a number of bonfires on this site, as dragging the brash will be tiring.

Observations:
- Noted that there were quite a few patches of Nail fungus on South Heath, which appear to have matured somewhat from their first sighting on the bird count.  Very odd.

martin

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