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Woodland paths and water-voles

Posted in Paths, Woodland management, tagged on September 5, 2016|

Yesterday SACV got to spend a lovely late summer day helping members of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust at Birch Moss Covert.  The task was to make a start on establishing new paths around the reserve; the previous paths were destroyed in recent work done on the site to convert it to wet mossland.  Since that work, the CWT have found good signs that water-voles are establishing themselves at the site, which is very good news indeed and increases the reserve’s wildlife importance.

Clearing the path
Tools
Fungi
Clearing the path
Flowering heather

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Heathland, paths and Himalayan balsam

Posted in Heathland, Invasive species, Paths, tagged , , , , on July 19, 2016| 1 Comment »

Well it’s been a while since we put out an update, but that doesn’t mean SACV hasn’t been busy!  In the last month or two we have worked in the quarry area at Tegg’s Nose Country Park (Sunday 12th June), when a damp day didn’t stop us from getting lots of heathland management work done; done some path maintenance work at Sale Water Park (Sunday 26th June) for City of Trees, taking care not to destroy some of the banks of wildflowers; and worked with the Cheshire Wildlife Trust at Birch Farm Ponds (Sunday 10th July) tackling the invasive Himalayan balsam.  Here’s hoping the rest of the summer continues in the same productive vein!

Volunteers at Tegg’s Nose
Volunteers at work at Sale Water Park
Widening the path at Sale Water Park
Himalayan balsam at Birch Farm Ponds
Himalayan balsam at Birch Farm Ponds
Himalayan balsam at Birch Farm Ponds – after clearing

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Himalayan balsam at Black Moss Covert

Posted in Invasive species, Woodland management, tagged on July 13, 2014|

Himalayan balsam is a pernicious invasive species which can take over large areas of woodland and the banks of streams, shading out and eradicating many other species.  Today SACV were out in Black Moss Covert helping the Cheshire Wildlife Trust with attempts to get the Himalayan balsam under control at this site – fingers crossed that this will help in getting it eradicated here!

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Saplings at Birch Moss Covert

Posted in Invasive species, Woodland management, tagged on September 8, 2013|

SACV volunteers were out today helping the Cheshire Wildlife Trust at one of their sites, Birch Moss Covert.  The work was to carry out some woodland management, clearing an area that had been invaded by Himalayan balsam and bracken, then transplanting rowan saplings from a denser area of the wood.

Woodland work at Birch Moss Covert
Woodland work at Birch Moss Covert

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