Woodland Management

Woodland creation, thinning and hedgelaying at SWW's Brokenbury site near Brixham

Thinning a 1980's plantation of broadleaf trees

Chainsaw milling large Chestnut boards

Gorse clearance to reclaim a wildflower meadow

chainsaw milling a giant Leylandii

management intervention on a rare Springline mire habitat

We are ‘felling to waste’ about 80% of the oak, beech and sweet chestnut trees in the selected glade areas. This huge injection of deadwood into the woodland will be a mecca for those saproxylic dead wood eating beetles amongst other things.