| 2000 |
| Cutting an old
hazel stool. This is a time consuming task because the tangled stems of
old stools fall anyway and cannot easily be laid in a single direction. |
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| Restoration is
carried out by first coppicing the hazel. Once this is done the larger stools
of ash and field maple are assessed and then selected for coppicing. This
process ensures that these stools can be cut on a 14 or 21 year cycle that
coincides with the future cutting of the hazel. |
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| A winter scene
- it may look bare but in a nine months time the coppiced hazel will have
stems over two metres tall that fill this area. |
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| Specimen trees
always emerge in woodland restoration. Here is an unusual coppiced whitebeam. |
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| 2003 |
| Hazel, standards
and the new woodland in the background. Light penetration to this coup has
been enhanced by the coppicing of a derelict woodland edge that prevented
light penetration under the canopy. |
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