The morning’s Weather was atrocious, so only the Hutcliffe Wood Group met. Six of us turned up at “The Monkey Bumps” halfway along the main track through Hutcliffe Wood. We were joined by Rangers, and, as the rain was less heavy than promised, we set about taking out as much male (non-berried) holly as possible. The Rangers had brought some sharp new knife-saws and loppers and showed us what holly to cut and where to cut it from. Most important was to pile the branches and saplings next to the track with cut end facing the track so it would be easy to feed them into the chipper come February.
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