Sheffield Conservation Volunteers
Free to all. No Booking required.

Wadsley and Loxley Common

11/3/2012

Heathland Restoration at Wadsley and Loxley Common. Parts of this site are beginning to be dominated by Silver birch and the heathland is disappearing. We are helping to restore the heathland by removing some of the birch. Photos kindly donated by James Hookway.

clearing some of the birch from the site
The birch is stacked up ready for chipping
The birch is felled
and then dragged to the chipping area
The site after removing some of the birch
The stacked birch ready for chipping