Wildlife & woodland voluntary work

[hoobs]

Woodland maintenance outside the main season is sometimes inevitable as it is often difficult to get anyone to cut your trees anyway. You find some interesting insects feeding on the sap-runs (of birches in particular). I think anyone conscientious enough to manage woodland for wildlife needs all the help he can get. It can be very difficult to find commercial woodcutters who will fell your trees in return for the timber unless you are lucky enough to have trees at the right age and quality that would interest them.

[Green Phoenix]

Hi Hoobs, thanks for the support, your very right. You just reminded me of a key point also , just the fact that mostly woodlands arnt managed for wildlife so the work is carried out as and when needed for timber. Its easy for me to forget that as Its second nature to pin all of my work around wildlife etc... Your right about the swapping of a good chainsaw operator for timber, not easy to come by, hopefully I can thin larger trees in stages (in the winter!) and remove them without too much damage to ground.

Will be selective thinning and it does make life difficult when extracting, but all for a good cause...

Cheers

Scott
Green Phoenix