Whippendell Woods-

[Tree Man Tom]

Enjoying the videos, keep them coming! It all makes sense to me in video format, i struggle to grasp your posts as it just goes above my head

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Enjoying the videos, keep them coming! It all makes sense to me in video format, i struggle to grasp your posts as it just goes above my head

 

I am going to do many videos like this in the future, i am glad you enjoy them and thank you for saying so, feedback is vital.

 

watch this space.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

One of the great things about whippendell is its natural feel, a fine mix of old vets, standing deadwood and fallen deadwood as well as lots of natural regeneration.

 

It is as natural a wood as you could hope to find in the south of england, or rather WAS.

 

I havent been to whip for months, yesterday i returned and was met with a scene of well take a look for your self. This wood was special, unique, i am gutted.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 13, 2011 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[nick channer]

have to admit i been taking all the hard wood from there.... many people on here have it stacked in there yard or field seasoning for next year... matthews the brick makers have bought 200 ton sweet chestnut to fire their old fashoned kiln with...

the guy who's doing the felling said that job has taken 15 yrs to sort out.. and now they've started there back there on a regular bsais... i was in there on friday picking load beech up and he said they nearly finished but there back there again in september...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have tried to see a justification for what has been done here, and why it may have been done, and the way it was done, but I cannot. Ecologicaly speaking leaving a few standing dead stumps does not make up for the massive loss here, one of the areas thinned and cleaned out was rather special for its dampness rare mosses and the fungi and flat foot flies, woodmice thrived there too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

Knowing you & the wood, I totaly understand your dissapointment.

 

I guess you need to find out if there are any up sides to this. like whether proceeds from the wood are going back in to the positive ecological management of the site.

 

Get on the blower.

 

 

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[RobArb]

Gutted for you Tony:sad:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Knowing you & the wood, I totaly understand your dissapointment.

 

I guess you need to find out if there are any up sides to this. like whether proceeds from the wood are going back in to the positive ecological management of the site.

 

Get on the blower.

 

 

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I am done with voicing over this wood, the few people who could have helped me do not like me and will ignore me, so my cause is lost.

 

A great crime has been committed against nature here, and I have lost all faith in the bodies who are supposed to be "conservation authorities" This was about money, and nothing more.

 

The money will not go into this wood, and this wood is going to change, I am just glad that i had the time i had with Whippendell when she was in her prime and free from abuse almost entirely.

 

This wood was my church, but over the years I have seen increasing pressures and activities, soon she will be just another managed wood, pressure by the presence and overbearing shadow of man and his exclusivity.

 

We are parasites on this earth, can nature not be left to its own devices at least in small pockets like whippendell? It wasnt a great park like richmond, windsor etc, it was more than that, I know, cos I know all of those places.

 

Niche is fragile, we are losing a pocket of niche that has been populating the surrounding country side for years here.

 

I had believed that putting in the time, making the effort to befriend individuals that could help me would ensure this wood got the right attention. I was wrong, i am a pest, a nusence and i lack any credability it would seem.

 

I couldnt give a rats arse about that but it frightens me that one of the last places with true potential to develop naturaly is being destroyed, or rather set back, when will a soil, a woodland be allowed to evolve and become precious?

 

time, they always talk about tree time, like they are clever and are all knowing, soil time is on yet another level, but they never talk about the soils in these places.

 

Life needs time, a grat deal of time, some organisms are so rare and so fragile they exist only in the oldest corners of europe on sites that have not been disturbed by man for 600-1000 plus years. Eachtime we interfere this way we are re starting the clock, one day all that will be left of life on earth is the pioneering species.

 

I had the priveledge of watching this wood grow, i thought that my whole life would be spent documenting the progression of species in a NAWS and SSSI designated site, how wrong was I, what i have been documenting it seems is the progressive pressures of man on one of the greatest deadwood/veteran tree environments in the south of england

[sloth]

Disgusting. I wonder what the timber will be used for? Are there protected species you have photos of, whose habitat destruction would be an offence? Long shot....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Disgusting. I wonder what the timber will be used for? Are there protected species you have photos of, whose habitat destruction would be an offence? Long shot....

 

Much of my records for the wood have been lost in a digital drive that bust:sneaky2:

 

I dont know about disgusting, i am very attached to this woodland for reasons already illustrated, to the management this is just another wood, with increasing human interaction and the responsibilities that brings.

 

But for me personally, I am in pieces over this.