Creating and maintaining deadwood habitat

[David Humphries]

Awesome!

 

You have the bestest job ever:biggrin:

 

 

 

 

Its ok I guess, but you should see the team I have to put up with

 

 

 

 

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[felixthelogchopper]

Great thread, David. It's given me lots of ideas.

[Matthew Arnold]

I shall hopefully get some pictures of a field that was full of large willows which a friend of mine bought. He paid £6,450 for what was originally 6 acres of grass pasture. When he asked Land Regristry he had infact got 60 acres. He just had 6 acres of grass on the slope but another 54 acres of overstood Sallow/Goat willow which was promptly felled and burnt stumps and all. He now has a cracking spot for wading birds, he had the ditches dug and the where the stumps were removed it created scrapes and a few deeper "ponds but they are interlinked via ditchs and pipes. He had the work paid for via grant money from the Wetland restoration trust.

[sean]

Awesome!

 

You have the bestest job ever:biggrin:

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

 

great job.....bit different to your conny reduction on facebook eh Rob?

[RobArb]

great job.....bit different to your conny reduction on facebook eh Rob?

 

Only a wee bit different, as i left an old birds nest in that conny! That counts doesn't it!

 

 

[treeseer]

Re height any way to guy/tether back to another structure or the ground?

 

Nice capping-and-boring job!

[David Humphries]

Re height any way to guy/tether back to another structure or the ground?!

 

 

Nothing within 20m to 'guy' it off Guy, but tbh we wouldn't consider that in this particular urban location due to road and pedestrian numbers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[HCR]

Inspect our monoliths (80ish) annualy and have decided to reduce the population in height.

Mainly target based.

 

Due in part to having lost a couple of them (although these were ganoderma infected ash & willow & not oak)

 

The oak is roadside & next to a pedestrian entrance on to the heath with its weight leaning over utility boxes.

 

The reduction will earn the monolith far more time standing.

 

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Thanks, and it's great to hear of such proactive management of tree stock for biodiversity.

 

I took over a council arb department in 2004 and that sort of thing was almost unheard of - one TO had a a few ideas but they were never really implemented. It took a bit of a battle to change ways of thinking, but once given encouragement and support everyone from the groundsman to the longest serving TO was keen to get stuck in.

[David Humphries]

Thanks, and it's great to hear of such proactive management of tree stock for biodiversity.

 

I took over a council arb department in 2004 and that sort of thing was almost unheard of - one TO had a a few ideas but they were never really implemented. It took a bit of a battle to change ways of thinking, but once given encouragement and support everyone from the groundsman to the longest serving TO was keen to get stuck in.

 

 

 

Has that ethos been sustained within that arb dept 9 years on?

 

Any shots of the managed habitat across the site?

 

 

 

 

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[Eddy_t]

Impressive, nice to see work carried out with conservation in mind, have any been discovered with roosting noctules yet?