Foraging licence

[Xerxses]

cool post Xerxses, where did you read that?

 

I took a large Gano resinaceum bracket this year, on checking it a while back to my horror it wieghed zero and was hooching with some very large larvea of some kind!

 

Collegue of mine is a keen birdwatcher and surround himself with all sorts of strange people...microhunters and the like... Put a FB in a jar with a lid and leave it for a year...have had many ruined by the little beasties:sneaky2:

 

 

Cant remember where I read that, might be the Swedish Biodiversity newsletter or just the internet...

BioOne Online Journals - ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FUNGI AND WOODPECKER CAVITY SITES

theres some lovely information there you know?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yes your right, it is time to start hatching out some of these old beasties!

 

youve given me ideas you has!

[Bundle 2]

It is a recognised method of survey Tony...Imagine you are contracted to survey a site and the weather is appalling (or even excellent) There is little credence to the survey without resorting to this "cunning plan". Its a way of extending the "window" of the survey, thereby allowing a more informed accumulation and interpretation of the data. Why restrict the collation of information when a more rounded overview can be achieved......(trapping also)

"Light touch paper and stand back" ....?

Then you can stick pins in them!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It is a recognised method of survey Tony...Imagine you are contracted to survey a site and the weather is appalling (or even excellent) There is little credence to the survey without resorting to this "cunning plan". Its a way of extending the "window" of the survey, thereby allowing a more informed accumulation and interpretation of the data. Why restrict the collation of information when a more rounded overview can be achieved......(trapping also)

"Light touch paper and stand back" ....?

Then you can stick pins in them!

 

You seem to have some knowledge on survey methods etc, care to share the wealth tim?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

throw it all my way folks, im like a sponge i am, like square pants himself!

[Saw-sick Steve]

I think it was health and safety issues. With the boom in wood burning stoves, all sorts of folk, with various levels of training and experience, were piling on to FC land, because they'd read in the papers they could feed their stove for free by just picking up offcuts etc. I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone hurt themselves and then tried to claim from the FC.

QT ; I can well believe that as a possible reason - even the most compelling reason. However, the timing of this has alerted the cynic in me to speculate that maybe the FC are enforcing this now in order to prevent any foraging ''issues'' prior to selling off chunks of our - whoops, sorry - 'their' estate.

I know that some people have been gleaning wood for years on certain sites. How embarrassing for the proud new owner of a former FC wood to have some peasant contest the fact that they are now no longer able to forage for wood on a site that had been accessible (to them, and others) for years.

I may well be wrong, but this action would certainly prevent such a scenario - or am I just being too cynical?

[Quickthorn]

QT ; I can well believe that as a possible reason - even the most compelling reason. However, the timing of this has alerted the cynic in me to speculate that maybe the FC are enforcing this now in order to prevent any foraging ''issues'' prior to selling off chunks of our - whoops, sorry - 'their' estate.

I know that some people have been gleaning wood for years on certain sites. How embarrassing for the proud new owner of a former FC wood to have some peasant contest the fact that they are now no longer able to forage for wood on a site that had been accessible (to them, and others) for years.

I may well be wrong, but this action would certainly prevent such a scenario - or am I just being too cynical?

 

I think it's been an issue for a few years, from what I'd heard, and coincides with the start of the firewood boom. The H&S issue revolved around the concern that a lot of "weekend warrior" types, perhaps not too experienced in this type of work, would be hitting the woods with B&Q chainsaws etc, hurting themselves and then putting a claim in.

 

It's not just FC either. A friend, who manages a few woods around here, gets several calls a year, starting round about now, from people offering to "tidy up" these woods for free, in exchange for some of the wood they cut. A lot of them are amazed when he refuses permission.

 

I feel more sorry for the regular gleaners, who had been gleaning in their local woods for years without incident.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

QT ; I can well believe that as a possible reason - even the most compelling reason. However, the timing of this has alerted the cynic in me to speculate that maybe the FC are enforcing this now in order to prevent any foraging ''issues'' prior to selling off chunks of our - whoops, sorry - 'their' estate.

I know that some people have been gleaning wood for years on certain sites. How embarrassing for the proud new owner of a former FC wood to have some peasant contest the fact that they are now no longer able to forage for wood on a site that had been accessible (to them, and others) for years.

I may well be wrong, but this action would certainly prevent such a scenario - or am I just being too cynical?

 

your too cynical!

 

recent (new) government wants to sell to clear debts, the old (labour) government would have been all for a bit of Hand S and administrative jobs!