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Aspect Forestry and Rural Management
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Aspect Forestry and Rural Management
@AspectForest
Timber harvesting contractors and woodland advisors. Achieving the most from your woodland with a flexible and conscientious approach. Established in 2004.
Halesworth, England Katılım Kasım 2022
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@DuncanWestbury Thank you. I’ve often wondered.
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In case you were wondering what the white flower is along many main roads, it’s Scurvy Grass, a UK native coastal plant that has made it inland due to salting and gritting of the roads!
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So if we get to fuel rationing, where will farming come in the pecking order of distribution priorities?
Is this possibility being ‘WarGamed’?
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The Muntjac plague in East Anglia is proving disastrous for our farmland wildlife. You can read, for free, in @scribehound_ctr how a couple of hedgelayers and a butcher are trying to cure that ill.
scribehound.com/countryside/sh…
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@MartinSLewis @itvMLshow @Ed_Miliband The electricity and gas price caps are applied across the board regardless of individual income. Why then, is heating oil assistance only going to be available to the most vulnerable. I am being penalised for having a rural job in a rural area. Mains gas is not available.
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Tomorrow on @ItvMLshow I'll be doing a short pre-rec interview with the Sec of State for Energy @Ed_Miliband specifically on Home Heating oil and LPG intervention (not wider issues). Do you have any practical questions on that you'd like me to ask him (times short so can't promise all)
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@cd3k_ @LandguardNot I completely agree with Chris. There is not really a single acre of woodland in the UK that hasn’t been heavily influenced by human management. In order to maintain the diversity that currently exists or increase it, that management has to continue.
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@LandguardNot oh, I agree with the concept of a long term vision. Mine is that the woodland itself is more knowledgeable than whatever humans can devise as management...
not you personally, but in general... and I am also guilty of managing my small place... cheers...
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3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers drumming in different areas of this wood at Sutton Heath you can just hear the distant ones. Some old Sweet Chestnut trees and standing dead wood. My regret is that I didn't get this wood sorted out before retiring, trees thinned, standards selected.
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@c_dodson_thatch @WoodlandNomad Absolutely.
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@WoodlandNomad @AspectForest Richard is very knowledgeable about the countryside, Natalie has simple jealous that some people own more than her. That is the fundamental problem.
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A good thread from Richard. He knows what he is talking about. Natalie on the other hand, does not.
Richard Prideaux@RichPrideaux
As someone who has made a good chunk of their income from taking people into woodlands for recreation and outdoor education - this is such a batshit idea. 1/depends how annoyed I get
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@diana4hereford @writethewrongs2 2/2 In the spring, we carry out a nesting bird examination of the felling area before starting work each morning. If a nest is found we mark it, leave the area until the young have fledged and then continue the work.
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@writethewrongs2 It's more than a recommendation. It's a criminal offence to cut back a hedge or tree at this time of year without checking that there isn't a single nest built, or being built.
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While there is no law about cutting back trees in your garden or cutting hedges, it is highly recommended that people don't from the beginning of March due to birds nesting. This continues into the autumn.
Please check for nests before cutting back trees or hedgerows. Disturbance through chainsaws is really bad for wildlife generally.
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@diana4hereford @writethewrongs2 My apologises but I would just like to correct you. It’s not a criminal offence to cut a hedge or tree at this time of the year. I’m a forestry contractor and my tree felling work has to continue 12 months of the year. However, it is an offence to disturb a nesting bird. 1/2
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@treesnwildlife The second point, the non natives seem to be more adaptable and breed at a higher rate than our native species, especially Muntjac. Fallow also herd in large groups so the damage they do to a woodland in one visit is far more concentrated.
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@AspectForest Do you think planting species favoured by greys can meaningfully reduce damage to crop?
Is the impact of non-native deer more significant than native deer or is generally overpop of native/non-nativd the issue?
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I’ve spent the morning marking up and preparing an area of my current site for thinning.
If anyone is in any doubt about the damage grey squirrels and none native deer are doing to our woodlands, please take a look for 1 minute.
Sound on.
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@treesnwildlife On the 1st point, yes it absolutely can, as long as the grey population isn’t too high. Hornbeam and sycamore can often be planted around more valuable trees like oak on walnut to draw them away. However, if the numbers are high the pressure will result in them just chewing all.
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Not a lot of people realise but if you become a Forestey Commissioner you are obliged to eat venison at least one a month. Hence I’ve recently discovered venison mince and I can recommend it. Swopping red wine for port worked well.
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@RossCherrington @FerociousDog I didn’t know that.
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@AspectForest @FerociousDog Top notch could be the last as this is a farewell tour
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@WillKnocker 2/2. The only real answer to successfully reduce deer numbers is a much greater amount being shot via stalking. This needs to be encouraged through either/or, a head payment per shot animal and an increase in demand + price of the venison. A lot of work still needs to be done.
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@WillKnocker Unfortunately, lynx in the UK are not the answer. The deer population is too large and the land mass available for lynx territory too small. Calculations show that the deer population would still grow exponentially even if we had a full available quota of lynx. 1/2
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Another sign of spring…..
Delicate flowers of the larch trees on my current work site.
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@swaledalebirds_ Everyday is school day. I did not know that, thank you.
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@AspectForest I’ve always called them flowers, but I learned recently that they are technically “strobili”.
I’ll still call em flowers😂
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