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 A Saturday morning up Butterley. Geoff, Dave, Asad, Ben, and Dan were working above the waterfall, straightening guards and bracken bashing for some CVTS planting.

I went all lone-wolf, and did some solo bracken bashing near to Dave's meadow. Which was gratifying, because it is Yorkshire water/National Trust stuff done by contractors, and is all in lovely rows. 

Many rivers to cross

Lonely little tree on the edge.

Up beyond Eastergate, Marsden today. Bracken-bashing some of the National Trust trees. It seems doubly important given how many did not survive the fire. The ones left need plenty of light, and less competiton from other plants.

We were; Geoff, Tanya, Jess, myself, Philip, and Dan.

Me in my hi vis and camo combo outfit.

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Dead flowers

 This morning we up above Slaithwaite weeding some hedgerows we previously planted. Which does of course mean we had to have a debate and make tough decisions about whether the pretty flowers were less important than the future hedgerow. Given that hedges are rarer than flowers round here the hedges won, and the flowers are dead, or at least roughed up a bit.

We were; myself, Geoff, Kara, Dan, Tanya, Jim, Philip, Asad, and Peter.

Dan, battling brambles.

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