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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

1st March 2011 ...weekly volunteers

present:
John, Anthony, Ron, Neil, Keith, Jane and Martin

Activities:
- Bonfire at the bottom of South Heath of gorse cut last week.
- Pollarding and felling trees in the copse by the tractor shed.  A new log pile started to take the four foots.
- Inspecting the fence from the five bar gate to the corner by Jilly's house.  Replacing staples and fixing others
- noted that the initial stretch from the car park needs extra new posts at some time.  Not urgent though.
- coppicing gorse at the gorse triangle, stashing the brash under the trees down the hill towards cuckoo pond.

Observations:
- edf or whatever telling people about a planned power break
- Jane has got her new job with SWT
- Jane has done a refresher course in chain saw, and might be able to help out to fell some pines near the stream.
- cattle may have been nibbling the yew along the top.  Should we cut down the low branches.
- tree Creeper, herring gull, wood lark, nail fungus.


martin

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