General outlook


Wurthymp Wood is a 17 acre / 6.9 hectare plot, divested from a mixed woodland 30 acre farmland project planted by others in 2006.

From 2014 it has stood as a stand-alone woodland conservation project in a wider landscape mosaic.
The woodland is privately owned and funded and is run on a break-even sustainable basis, resources are shared with the Meadowcopse Orchard Project a few miles to the north.

The primary objectives are mixed:-
a, Wildlife habitat conservation (trees, grassland and ponds).
b, Rotational coppice woodland management (thinning, regeneration, rural craft materials and firewood).
c, Selective long-term forestry tree management (coppice with selected standard trees left long-term).
d, Community, education & research engagement, (the promotion and understanding of wildlife & sustainable conservation in a wider landscape context).

Friday 29 June 2018

June 2018

From a rather wet winter to a rather dry summer.
A small amount of conservation related groundwork and minor tree management in the woods.
A big distraction due to some personal health issues slowing me down and some home life projects to get on top of back home in Chester.

Quite pleased with some late spring and early summer wild flower proliferation at the woods, particularly where I had transplanted and seeded local varieties.
The open grass is being left as late as possible as a hay crop (again helps wild flower diversity).
This year the footpath is doing particularly well with the extra width allowing extra light after previous years tree trimming.

Some ground work near the boundary by the neighbour has seen an extra pond creation.
(For clarity, whatever rumours circulate about work on the edge of the village, I'm not involved in other folks projects, but maintain a healthy 'arms length' conversational approach where nature friendly landscape aspects overlap.

Disappointingly, some shady characters have been witnessed about the village late at night.
Report anything suspicious on the police non-emergency number, so that rural crime gets attended to and minimised.

Next project is a series of charcoal kiln burns from wood cut on site that is either from managed coppice creation or thinnings as the future profile of the woodland is managed.





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