A glorious day and six of us (ultimately seven of us) met to work on Adel Moor, pulling up saplings and digging up coppiced birch trees.
Area of bracken
We started at the central area and them moved on to the South East which, as far as your correspondent can recall, we have not worked on for a while. This area is dominated by bracken which has just emerged and is about 15 cm high. The bracken seems to stifle growth by any other species, but – on the bright side -the saplings and trees which were in this area seemed to be a lot easier to remove.
Man conquers nature!
Between us we pulled up hundreds of small saplings and dug up many larger specimens.
As we worked we met a number of neighbours, other Friends, and members of the family and we had a great morning. Unfortunately, no sitings of lizards or other wildlife (a couple of years ago we had some great sitings of a kestrel), but a very enjoyable and satisfying morning nonetheless. The moor is looking great. Only another five years to finish the work!
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