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On the Ground in October 2017



On the Ground in October 2017

November 2, 2017

Don’t forget to say hello if you spot our rangers and volunteers out working in the National Park. Here’s a taste of what they achieved in September 2017.

  • Completed ten days work at Binswood, managing the site’s rides with the Woodland Trust.
  • Began enhancement work on Petersfield’s greenspaces in partnership with Petersfield Town Council.
  • Started winter scrub management across many heathland sites.
  • Started clearing hedges either side of an old drove road in Fernhurst, new hedges will be laid in traditional style and the old drove road opened up.
  • Removed floating pennywort at Frogs Farm with the Leconfield Estate.
  • Led 16 people on a Heartsmart walk at Bignor and 45 people at Slindon.
  • Coppiced woodland at Church Copse; and coppiced blackthorn at Pheasant’s Field for the brown hairstreak butterfly.
  • Installed new gates on open access land at Lychpole hill, Sompting; at Mount Caburn; on Ambersham Common; and a new stile at Pepperscombe.
  • Completed autumn Catchment Invertebrate Fingerprinting on the River Meon with Wessex Chalk Streams Trust and Portsmouth Services Fly-fishing Association.
  • Began new season of scrub clearance at Long Furlong to open up chalk grassland habitat and cleared scrub from: Medley Bottom and Stoke Bottom SSSI; SSSI chalk grassland at Willingdon down and Anchor Bottom; and Local Wildlife Site at Mile Oak Farm.
  • Cleared scrub to protect an ancient field system Scheduled Monument at Cloth Farm and cleared a permissive path of vegetation at Rodmell.
  • Put up electric fencing to allow grazing on Mill Hill Local Nature Reserve.
  • Carried out meadow management to enhance biodiversity on Lewes Golf Course.
  • Began installing interpretation panels at Tide Mills, funded by a successful application to ESCC Mitigation fund in Partnership with Sussex Past Archaeologist Luke Barber.
  • Advised Ovingdean Friends of St Wulfran’s Church on creating wildflower meadow.
  • Worked with Lewes District Council to plan and agree new management and planting scheme to improve condition of Lewes Cemetery Local Wildlife Site.