A fine day and a good turn out. Two of us went off litter picking, while the rest of us went off to Adel Moor to bash and pull bracken.
The committee decided that we would make a determined effort to get on top of the bracken on the moor and this was our third outing this Summer.
The first thing we found, was that an area which we cleared of bracken earlier this year had sprouted lots of new growth – as shown in this photograph.
This demonstrated just how persistent bracken is. Undaunted, the Friends quickly set to work and removed all this new growth.
Equally positively, it is possible to make a big inroad into the bracken in the space of two hours.
Here are before and after pictures of the same spot taken about an hour and a half apart – and this is only a small part of the total achievement of the morning.
It was gratifying to find that under the bracken, there is still – at the moment – quite a lot of healthy looking heather.
The weather was fine until a few minutes before 12 noon when – out of nowhere – a torrential rain shower soaked us all.
Still this is what we are striving to achieve – the preservation of a wonderful heath with associated flora and fauna.
Friends of Adel Woods 