Continuous Cover Forestry?

[DanSmallLGL]

One of the biggest barriers to CCF being successful in my eyes is the browsing from deer and squirrels. If both of these species had properly managed populations CCF would be a much more viable option.

[devon TWiG]

Is that on the Devon Cornwall borders, next to some old arsenic workings?

 

Yep , on the Devon side of the Tamar between Tavistock and Gunnislake

[slack ma girdle]

Yep , on the Devon side of the Tamar between Tavistock and Gunnislake

 

We had a guided talk through those woods about twenty years ago, and they looked good then. Although i did wonder how they were going to get the final crop out with out obliterating the remaining crop.

[devon TWiG]

I wondered how they would fell the mature ones without damaging the younger ones as well .........

[J-P]

Biggest problem for CCF in the UK is low light /sunshine levels compared to a Continental climate. Clearfell or complete coppicing enables a more substantial regrowth here. But now we have Sitka Spruce which suits our Atlantic climate in UK and Ireland.