Posts Tagged ‘bracken’
Bracken Bashing at the Mediaeval Farmstead
Summer conservation workdays at High House Waste focus on controlling bracken, which grows extremely quickly and can smother archaeology and out-compete other native plants. Bracken grows up to 3m tall, forming dense stands which block out light to other plants, reducing overall biodiversity. Areas of bracken, as part of a mosaic of habitat, are valuable…
Read MoreUncovering Bronze Age Archaeology at Hound Tor
Previous volunteer workdays on the Hound Tor 2 site have focused on strimming bracken and brambles, plus cutting encroaching gorse from the Bronze Age and Medieval archaeology. Our most recent workday, the last one before our pause during nesting season, aimed to rake and gather up all the dead vegetation. DPA Conservation Volunteers removed many…
Read MoreBracken Rake at Pudsham
Fourteen volunteers from the Dartmoor Preservation Association were joined by twenty volunteers from the Devon Wildlife Trust to rake up the bracken from the DPA’s four flower meadows at Pudsham. The bracken had been cut with strimmers two weeks before, as part of the regime of tending the fields, where earlier in the year several…
Read MorePudsham Bracken Cut
This week was our annual bracken cut on DPA owned land at Pudsham Meadows. Using both strimmers and hand operated scythes, DPA conservation volunteers cut back bracken growth in our four fields: Pudsham Meadow, Goat Field, Small Field and Sylvia’s Field. The entire site consists of these four fields plus several small shelterbelt areas filled…
Read MoreBracken cutting at Pudsham
Our conservation volunteers recently spent the day cutting bracken at Pudsham Meadows. It is important to check the growth of bracken, as it can grow so vigorously that it smothers other plants and reduces the variety of vegetation. Pudsham Meadows is managed for biodiversity, part of which includes cutting back the bracken so that slower…
Read MoreDrake’s Leat Bracken Cutting
June 2023 – The first bracken cutting event of the season for the Volunteers on Drake’s Leat last Friday, with ponies as interested spectators! Roborough Earthworks and around 250m of leat cleared in the day, a good effort by all. Photo taken by Ken McGuire
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