charlie-cheeze.bsky.social
Chartered Forester with the ICF.
Ecology graduate.
Interested in wildlife, cycling and nice places.
Easily distracted by trees.
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Ha ha, lovely stuff!
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Brian is amazing! CEO of Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire Wildlife Trust I believe. He knows Elm spp like no one else ever as well.
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Cycling the Canti Way, and there's "no cycling" signs painted on the actual National Cycle Network sections between Margate and Minnis Bay! Crazy world we live in!
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Hi, I think you have an Early Marsh Orchid (pale one) and a Common Spotted Orchid (purple one)! They're looking beaut in full flower. 👍
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Excellent, thanks! I'm getting my maps open now to check a few places and distances. But yes, limited to half term, so accept the area will be busy!
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I'm delighted that there is a result in this court ruling favouring a person's right to wild camp without breaking the law on Dartmoor.
I believe with the right and reasonable measures in place this ought to be possible in other areas.
Leave no trace & respect the natural world & private property.
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Completely recognise this issue. Agree that marketing very hard and clients will desire a return in most cases.
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Although I am very worried at what losses might be coming from last season's planting efforts. Fingers crossed some trees get through it!
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100%
More action needed! Not least with tree planting!
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Having seen the devastating effects in France and Slovenia on trips over the last few years, we've really got to be aware of Iyps typographus and ensure windblow or stressed, under-managed woodlands are brought swiftly into management.
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And yet we still get massive misunderstanding from Jo Public and a need for wider education on the matter and better reporting from media like the BBC @bbcbreakingnews.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Here's the grasshopper warbler
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A question I can't answer!
Conditions must be right for lichen development, and this could include many biotic and abiotic factors that I simply don't know about. Having spotted the tree with the line I just wondered if it indicated something, then discovered it's natural lichen growth!
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There were five calling tonight, and as the sun went down the moon came up, the tawnys began...! It was nature's magic delights all around.
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I haven't been along to Holme Fen for quite a while now. I think a return visit very soon ought to be on my to do list. Thanks for the nudge! I bet it feels glorious there in this spring sunshine.
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Tube tech is advancing & alternatives are there, & trad tubes can recycle. Fencing can work, but is more diff to find a contractor who knows how to fence to right spec for forestry & they're often pricing at about the same to tube. It's then 50:50 on costs, but harder to secure fencing contractors.
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Would be better if we didn't need plastic tubes, but they serve multiple purposes very well, & in the context of establ'ing a long term sustainable resource, tubes work. If more people were managing mammal poplns maybe we wouldn't need them, but we'd need to kill a lot more hares, deer & voles.
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There's a lot of misperception and misunderstanding, with people in general having an increasing disconnection from land management, ecology and the impact that humans have from less sustainable choices. Forestry is maligned deliberately sometimes too, which fuels -ve POVs.
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Forestry takes me to so many places and I love discovering the history and fascinating things which I'd otherwise perhaps never know about. I certainly had never heard of Fauld, or the tragedy, until I came to work in this area. A little bit of me would love to have gone beyond the signs!
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@froglife.bsky.social
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I have only found frogspawn in some incidental forest puddles this year, none in ponds so far. It was a bit sad, but there's hope that there's more in ponds in places I can't easily see into.