Wessex Silvicultural Group

Meeting Reports

Date Author(s) Sites Subjects Papers
September 2022 Gary Kerr Powerstock Common Wood Pasture, Grazing, Ash Dieback, Pollarding Report: Re-creation of Wood Pasture: 175 years of Land-use Change at Powerstock Common
June 2022 Gary Kerr Clarendon Park Estate ASNW, Paws restoration, Ash Management, Corsican Pine Report: Combining long-term production with aesthetic and biodiversity value
May 2022 Gary Kerr Stourhead (Western) Estate Wildlife, CCF in conifer Report: Biodiversity in irregular conifer dominated stands
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April 2022 Gary Kerr Rushmore Wildlife, CCF in broadleaves Report: The relationship between stand structure and biodiversity
September 2021 ? Bathurst Estate Ride Management Planning Short summary
July 2021 ? Maiden Bradley Estate Space for Nature Short summary
May 2021 ? Knepp Estate Rewilding Short summary
October 2019 ? Wareham Forest Historic Forest Nutrition Research Short summary
July 2019 ? Forest Research Alice Holt Lodge Research and Monitoring for Resilience Short summary
April 2019 Freia Bladon Micheldever Wood Oak Sample Plots, Free Growth, Natural Regeneration Trials, Beech Oak Sample Plots and Natural Regeneration Trials
October 2018 Stephen Woollard Longford Castle Estate Yew woodland, regeneration of yew Meeting notes are available to members only. Please contact the secretary.
Background on yew is available from BIOLOGICAL FLORA OF THE BRITISH ISLES.
July 2018 Stephen Woollard Fingle Woods PAWS, Douglas Fir, Woodland Trust Ancient Woodland Restoration and role of Continuous Cover Forestry - Regeneration, restocking, CCF, PAWS and how the whole area is beginning a new journey under WT/NT oversight
May 2018 Daniel Willis New Forest National Park, PAWS, Douglas Fir The Challenges of Silviculture within a Designated Habitat
April 2018 none East Hill, Honiton Underplanting Short summary
September 2017 Chris Sorensen Broomhill Estate (Will Woodlands) Woodland creation, chalk soils WSG September 2017
May 2017 Freia Bladon Stourhead (Western) Estate Natural and artificial regeneration in conifer WSG May 2017
March 2017 Jeremy Hunter Ringwood Forest Underplanting WSG March 2017
September 2016 Ralph Harmer Salisbury Plain Training Area Mixed woodland, managing for military training WSG September 2016
June 2016 Freia Bladon Crichel Down Estate, Cranborne Estate Oak, "active silviculture" WSG June 2016
May 2016 Freia Bladon Ampfield Wood Mixed stands, restoring derelict woodland WSG May 2016
October 2015 Freia Bladon Bower Hinton Farm Flood alleviation WSG October 2015
July 2015 none, limited notes Stourhead, Stavordale Windblow WSG July 2015
June 2015 none, limited notes Ringwood Fire WSG June 2015
March 2015 Freia Bladon Rushmore Ash, Fraxinus excelsior, Chalara, windblow WSG March 2015
July 2014 Freia Bladon Ringwood Forest, Bolderwood Arboretum alternative conifers, climate change, Delamere nursery WSG July 2104
May 2014 Freia Bladon Earth Trust, Little Wittenham Ash, walnut, wild cherry, tree improvement WSG May 2014
March 2014 Freia Bladon Westonbirt Alternative species, Project Reinfforce, Douglas fir clone bank WSG March 2014
1980 Helliwell, D.R. Cirencester Park, Norman Court, Lockerly, Garnons, Park Wood (Hereford), Savernake, Bowood Ash, Fraxinus excelsior Silviculture of Ash in Wessex 1980
anyone know? G. V. DARRAH AND J. W. DODDS Cholderton, Cranborne Chase, Pentridge, Crichel, Salisbury Plain, Springhead, Micheldever Forest, Delcombe, Cirencester Park, Woolland, Garnons, Dymock Forest, New Forestd growing in mixtures; establishment Growing Broadleaved Trees in Mixture with Conifers