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PRESS
RELEASE……………..PRESS RELEASE
2 November
2007…………...For Immediate Release
WOODLAND
MANAGEMENT & WORK PARTIES
On
Saturday 17th November and Sunday 18th November 2007
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust invites you to join in with one of our weekend
work parties on various nature reserves around the county, or to
participate in an introductory woodland management session in Ryton Wood.
On
Saturday 17th November at
10.00 am:
Join the volunteer team
at Snitterfield Bushes Site of
Special Scientific Interest, Snitterfield, for a practical woodland
work party. Please meet at the
nature reserve car park off the Bearley Road at grid reference SP200603.
Join volunteer warden
Steve Godfrey for a practical work party helping to manage the River
Arrow Local Nature Reserve in Alcester.
Please meet in the car park of Ragley Mill Lane
(SP 088 580)
On
Sunday 18th November at
9.30am:
Join the volunteer team
at Brandon Marsh Site
of Special Scientific Interest, near Coventry and assist in the
management of this wetland nature reserve. Please meet at the car park at
Brandon Marsh Nature Centre, off Brandon Lane at grid reference SP386761.
On
Sunday 18th November at
10.00am:
Join volunteer warden
Ron Hill for a woodland work party at Clowes Wood and New Fallings Coppice Site of Special Scientific Interest. Please meet at the woodland
entrance off Wood Lane, Earlswood
at grid reference SP101743.
Join volunteer warden
Jon Holmes for a practical woodland management session at
Crackley Wood Local Nature Reserve, Kenilworth.
Please meet at the entrance to the wood off Crackley Lane at grid
reference SP289738.
Join volunteer warden
Dave Solliss at Hampton Wood,
Barford to work in this beautiful ancient woodland and its associated
water meadows alongside the River Avon. Meet at the entrance (grid
reference SP254600) on the Sherbourne to Hampton Lucy road.
Join volunteer warden
Val Kendrick at Rough Hill Wood
Site of Special Scientific Interest, Studley to assist in the
management of this wonderful old woodland. Please meet at the car park off
The Slough (the A448) at grid reference SP052637.
Join volunteer warden
John Clarke to assist in the management of Temple Balsall, Balsall
Common, a reserve which is mainly swamp, willow carr and damp woodland
which hosts a wide variety of species of flora and fauna. Meet near the
entrance to Springfield House, off the Kenilworth to Knowle Road [B4101].
Grid Reference SP203760.
On
Sunday 18th November at
10.00am:
Introductory
woodland management at Ryton Wood.
Join volunteer warden
Mike Slater at Ryton Wood Site of
Special Scientific Interest, Ryton-on-Dunsmore
for this important conservation session in the largest wood in
Warwickshire. Please meet at the car park, which can be accessed via an
access track off the A423 near the Bull and Butcher pub at grid reference
SP384726.
BOOKING
ESSENTIAL: Contact 024 7630 8999
Events
are free and full training will be given.
For
each event, all you need to bring is appropriate weatherproof clothing and
strong footwear.
Eddie Asbery
, Reserves Woodland Project Officer at Warwickshire
Wildlife Trust says, “If the term,
‘woodland management,’ makes you think of brawny types wielding axes
and having huge bonfires of the results of their chopping, then this
introductory woodland management session in Ryton Wood will be a real
eye-opener, and an ideal opportunity for you to find out exactly how
varied this ancient tradition is, and exactly what it involves – and
it’s a practical session, so come and have a go.”
ENDS
Press contact:
Eddie Asbery
on 024 7630 8984.
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