Tree work on Adel Bog
A beautiful morning.
There were three teams of us today. David and Rob cleared a fallen tree. Judith, Ade and Brian did some litterpicking before joining the rest of us clearing saplings from around the northern perimeter of the bog and removing tree stumps from the bog itself. The aim is to reduce the amount of water being lost from the bog through being sucked up by trees.
The northern side of the bog is very dry. However, the southern side of the bog, which is down hill from the northern side, is now a true bog in the sense that it is very muddy and water oozes out when you stand on it. Reeds are beginning to shoot in this area and it is looking very encouraging.
We have now made a
big impression on the bog and we need to see how it responds to the winter rains. Your correspondent’s guess is that the next step is to remove more trees from around the perimeter, and to increase the wet area on the southern area by lowering the ground level of the adjacent area to the north.
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