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Case Study: Fen Restoration
North Hinksey Parish Council
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Pollarding existing and making new pollards, felling willows and cross-cutting and removing windblown crack willows from the Louie Memorial fen. The purpose was to reduce shade and evapotranspiration from the willows, keep the fen water table high and allow natural fen vegetation to thrive. Large habitat piles were constructed from cut trunks, limbs and brash.
Case Study: Windblown Tree Clearance
Private Client, Dorchester-on-Thames
Cross-cutting and clearance of large windblown Weeping Willow limbs and construction of habitat piles from cut material in a residential garden
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Case Study: Fen Rewetting
Sub-contracted to Rod D'Ayala
Blocking a deep artifical drain in Raleigh Park Fen by constructing a series of log dams from adajcent felled scrub and trees. Dams were packed out with hand-dug soil to reduce leakage, with sections between dams filled with cut brash and timber. Purpose was to raise the water table to the surface, keeping peat wet and reducing flood risk downstream
Case Study: Fruit Tree pruning
Private Client, Oxford
Carefully renovating old, neglected apple trees in late winter which hadn't been pruned for some time. Removal of watershoots and re-forming an open structure to let light in, improve air circulation and encourage formation of healthy shoots and a new framework of fruiting branches
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Case Study: Tree Felling
Private Client, Wantage
Felling, cross-cutting and removal of a Silver Birch Tree that was sadly planted too close to a residential property and had grown too large for its position.
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