Ecological woodland management

[Charlieh]

i'm intersted in reading more about conservation side of woodland management, can you recommend any books on the subject?

 

btcv handbook: woodlands

Ben Law: a woodland way

 

 

and as an attachment the FC EWGS guidance note on ride management for conservation

ewgs-on011-ride-mangt.pdf

[Charlieh]

Here are some pics from another site, unmanged woodland cleared of all the decent hardwoods in the early 1980's so mostly young birch and oak woodland. The rides were very wet and unpassable as the woodland was very dense with no light getting in, here is a photo after the ride has been widened enough to have some ecological benefit, the amount of timber removed is significant but this has to be done to benefit the wide ecology of the site. An alstor photo, and what the woodland looks like prior to the ride widening works

[Charlieh]

try again then

[Charlieh]

not relating to woodland management but just a little fella who lives in the woods he was free'd do go on his way bothering rabbits in the local woods. He was caught about 150meters from my woodland by a lady trying to catch rabbits on her lawn.

[Paul Smith]

Nice find, they don't do to well in the wild as they are not too clever where other predators are concerned! They might adapt if you hacked them back like you would a hawk?

[Charlieh]

Nice find, they don't do to well in the wild

 

sorry I should explain this is a wild polecat not a ferret, so he should do just fine in the wild

[Charlieh]

just a quick bump to add a new document by FC on management of dead wood in forests and woodlands

 

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/PDF/FCPG020.pdf/$FILE/FCPG020.pdf

 

I think i may have posted this elsewhere but i figured posting it again wouldnt hurt

[teepeeat]

Good thread Charlie

Just starting out on our small patch and finding the links useful