{"id":465,"date":"2024-12-05T21:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=465"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T19:53:23","slug":"2025-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=465","title":{"rendered":"2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Sable Wood is for sale<\/h5>\n<p>During the 2024\/2025 winter the decision firmed up in my mind that it was time to pass Sable Wood on to a new steward. Over my 13 years of ownership I had the pleasure of seeing it evolve from a rather neglected wood, with important habitats slowly disappearing, to a greener, more biodiverse space with solid evidence of, in particular, a healthy reptile population comprising four out of the six species of reptile found in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>During January and February 2025 I gave advance warning to all those who would be affected by this decision, before the wood formally went up for sale in early April.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2648-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-668 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2648-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Rain erosion had turned the footpath into a gully\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2648-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2648-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2648-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2648-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2648-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Sable Wood remains in my possession I will continue to manage it for the benefit of wildlife, and the two forest schools will continue to operate.<\/p>\n<p>On 3 April, steps \u00a0were inserted into FP218, to repair a section where rain erosion had turned the footpath into a gully.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-669\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2656-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-669 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2656-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2656-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2656-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2656-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2656-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2656-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sable Wood is for sale During the 2024\/2025 winter the decision firmed up in my mind that it was time to pass Sable Wood on to a new steward. Over my 13 years of ownership I had the pleasure of seeing it evolve from a rather neglected wood, with important habitats slowly disappearing, to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/?page_id=465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2025<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":204,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-465","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/bacwood.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions\/680"}],"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=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}