And the cupboard was bare

[Anser anser]

After seeing mr clipboard manager type showing a map and pointing about to a dungaree clad man mountain on the clearfell last month i felt more blocks of trees were for the chop--or possibly replanting going ahead soon.Now since this time i have seen exactly 1 deer. just 1 in all my trips out to that spot.could be they have some tasty scoff elsewhere and are just awol of course but my spider sense is also tingling over the possibility of some individual doing a night cull .damned pity if that is the case as the numbers were way down thanks to yours truly. Anyone else had a small population just up and off like this?

 

[8x57]

Due to disease in the Larch and Ash dieback my landowner has had to fell the majority of the trees on his ground. They finished felling last week. I stalked the ground earlier this week and there were fallow slots absolutely everywhere plus a good number of roe slots on the lower part of the ground. I even saw some slots that looked suspiciously like muntjac. I encountered fallow while stalking unfortunately not in a shootable position as right on the boundary with a house behind.
It looks like my worries about the felling ending my stalking were unfounded.

 

[Anser anser]

Due to disease in the Larch and Ash dieback my landowner has had to fell the majority of the trees on his ground. They finished felling last week. I stalked the ground earlier this week and there were fallow slots absolutely everywhere plus a good number of roe slots on the lower part of the ground. I even saw some slots that looked suspiciously like muntjac. I encountered fallow while stalking unfortunately not in a shootable position as right on the boundary with a house behind.
It looks like my worries about the felling ending my stalking were unfounded.

Aye i was a tad concerned the forest work and resulting clearfell would be the end of the area for me but that was not the case. the lack of roe now though suggests something has changed although im not quite sure what.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

A vacuum gets refilled fast.

 

[8x57]

I was hoping to formulate a plan to re-site the high seats that I took down some time ago in preparation for the felling. Unfortunately the stacked timber has not been removed yet due to the extremely wet conditions, they don't want to churn up the ground unnecessarily. So it looks like it may be a little while before I can develop some sort of a plan.
The landowner isn't intending to replant just allow things to naturally regenerate, we shall have to see how that works out over the next few years.

 

[Brittany boy]

I was hoping to formulate a plan to re-site the high seats that I took down some time ago in preparation for the felling. Unfortunately the stacked timber has not been removed yet due to the extremely wet conditions, they don't want to churn up the ground unnecessarily. So it looks like it may be a little while before I can develop some sort of a plan.
The landowner isn't intending to replant just allow things to naturally regenerate, we shall have to see how that works out over the next few years.

Look for a grant to help the regeneration, if your land owner is willing and plant up some native hardwoods that you would obviously have to protect. There are grants out there.

 

[8x57]

Look for a grant to help the regeneration, if your land owner is willing and plant up some native hardwoods that you would obviously have to protect. There are grants out there.

There's no grants available or so I am told. Unfortunately the ground is on the Welsh side of the river so comes under NRW and the Welsh assembly. Pity we can't divert the Wye half a mile westwards.
I'm told that the trees were originally planted under a grant scheme but before the NRW came into existence.

 

[Brittany boy]

Our local council has signed up to a scheme where they will plant so many thousand trees before 2028 so will supply the trees free of charge to landowners/groups, might be worth a chat with a local councillor. Or one of the nature , rewinding groups. We even got assistance with planting the 800 we put in.