{"id":30,"date":"2015-04-03T15:35:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T15:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2024-12-11T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:19:27","slug":"summary-of-management-activities-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year <strong>2014<\/strong> saw the most progress, since purchase of the wood in 2011, in evolving the wood away from its unmanaged state towards one with a greater proportion of native deciduous species and with better vertical structure of vegetation. Main areas of progress included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bacwood.com\/mngmntplans\/Sable%20Wood%20MP%20v2%2016%20Jan%202014.pdf\" target=\"blank\">Management Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Planting of a mixed variety of native deciduous hedging, with the aim of improving low-level structure within the wood. The RHS-sourced hedging was<em>\u00a0<\/em>wildlife friendly and\u00a0designed to reflect rural hedging. \u00a0It consisted mainly of\u00a0<em>Crataegus monogyna,<\/em>\u00a0(Hawthorn) and smaller numbers of\u00a0<em>Prunus spinosa\u00a0<\/em>(Blackthorn),\u00a0<em>Corylus avellana<\/em>\u00a0(Hazel),\u00a0<em>Cornus sanguinea<\/em>\u00a0(Common Dogwood) and\u00a0<em>Acer campestre<\/em>\u00a0(Field Maple).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Late note<\/b>: Almost none of the planted species survived the year. The lesson learned was that <em>the wood will grow what the wood will grow<\/em>. This experience, along with the poor germination of wildlife-friendly flowers, effectively put an end to any large scale attempts to plant new specimens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dead-hedging-using-Scots-pine-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dead-hedging-using-Scots-pine--300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dead-hedging-using-Scots-pine--300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dead-hedging-using-Scots-pine--1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Felling of a substantial number of small, crowded Scots pine in subcompartment <em>Com3<\/em> to provide more light for existing native deciduous trees such as oak and sweet chestnut. Pine and rhododendron waste material was turned into dead hedging. The lines run between the trunks of existing large deciduous trees, with occasional gaps where they intersect trails used by larger wildlife.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10256725_1490362207897858_1703663299150122471_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10256725_1490362207897858_1703663299150122471_o-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Rhododendron infestation at the northern end of Marjorie's Path before clearance in October 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10256725_1490362207897858_1703663299150122471_o-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10256725_1490362207897858_1703663299150122471_o-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/10256725_1490362207897858_1703663299150122471_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Clearance of many areas of rhododendron, particularly at the north end of Marjorie&#8217;s Path where a large area was cleared and replaced with native hedging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FP218-repair-nears-completion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-224 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FP218-repair-nears-completion-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FP218-repair-nears-completion-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FP218-repair-nears-completion.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>With the help of members of the Bourne Conservation Group, completed \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=221\"><em>repairs to the footpath<\/em><\/a> (FP218) running along the south-western boundary of Sable Wood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_0245-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-499 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_0245-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Jamel Genioui of Surrey Amphibian and Reptile Group\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_0245-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_0245-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_0245-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_0245-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_0245-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Installation of five refugia by Jamel Genioui of the Surrey Amphibian and Reptile Group (SARG) as part of its monitoring network. The refugia are surveyed approximately monthly outside the winter months.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2014 saw the most progress, since purchase of the wood in 2011, in evolving the wood away from its unmanaged state towards one with a greater proportion of native deciduous species and with better vertical structure of vegetation. Main areas of progress included: Publication of a Management Plan Planting of a mixed variety &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=30\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2014<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":204,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/629"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}