The weather forecast was dire – heavy rain all morning. But it was dry at 10 am and six of us met with Steve Joul at the Slabbering Baby entrance to the woods to work on Adel Moor.
Adel Moor: 21 May 2016
In fact it turned out to be a perfect morning for working on the moor – warm, with a pleasant breeze, and a lightly overcast sky with sunny intervals. In addition to the bird song, we heard cattle lowing from the direction of Adel, confirming the impression that we were in the middle of the countryside.
A successful tussle with a tree root!
Adel Moor was looking fantastic this morning, with abundant heather and bilberry plants, and two clumps of gorse in full flower.
Our task this morning was to remove saplings and brambles from the moor and between us we removed several hundred seedlings and saplings and one mature tree.
We planned to do some bracken bashing today because bracken has taken over several hundred square yards of the moor, suppressing all other plant life, but it had only just started to appear. So we will have to bash the bracken (the traditional way of controlling bracken is to bash it) later in the season.
Thanks to Steve and everyone who came for a very enjoyable morning’s work.
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