Friday 6th August: Baildon Moor, Baildon

The BEES technique of widening out from mixed flora areasThe BEES technique of widening out from areas of mixed flora Our second visit of the season to cut Bracken on the moor. For today's task we concentrated on 3 techniques of control. For the areas that we have been working on for a number of years, which are showing good recolonisation progress, we mainly walked over the area and hand picked out the Bracken. Next, patches that we identified as having a good mixed flora were cut away from using hand tools in the hope that that the flora will spread out into the newly cleared areas. Finally, using the autoscythe and the hand scythes we cut areas that were dense with bracken with little or no flora beneath. The Bracken is then collected up into piles.

Today there were 15 volunteers.

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