This morning we were West of Marsden, doing some woodland management. The site was planted in several phases over 15 years ago, and we were thinning out some of the nurse species, such as Birch and Larch, leaving more light for the Oaks and Scots Pine.
We were careful to leave as little trace of our activities as possible. Piling brash away from the track, and removing all the felled timber.
We were: Stephen, Susan, Ben, Hap, Adrian, Simon, Robert, Cristina, Dave, Geoff, John, Lee and Jess.
Cake was apple flapjack, plus fruit from Hap.
Philip was representing us at a "Making the most of our moorland" public event at Marsden Mechanics.
Earlier in the week I had been on site with Guy and Susan to select the trees that could be felled. While we were there we heard lots of woodpeckers in the big Beech trees at the top of the site. I think they were probably scared off by the chainsaws on Saturday.
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