Today In The Woods

Today (27/4/2024) the volunteers returned to an area of the upper woods that was too wet to work on earlier in the year, this being the embankment that drops to the ghyll north of the boardwalk.

The embankment is approximately 25' high and required us to put into place a rope access route to the lower working area and for 'Chainsaw Al' to harness up in order to work from ropes to cut the fallen trees and brash, enabling them to be burnt on the fire.

Mike struck gold later in the day with a discovery of a ‘feral’ goldfish in the ghyll. That makes two discoveries now in this area - Niagara Falls and Moby Dick! As a word of warning: goldfish are a non-native species descended from Asian carp and, if introduced to a delicately balanced ghyll ecosystem, can rend great destruction to the native species as has already happened with koi carp in our pond. 

Because of this, please do not dispose of goldfish, aquarium water, aquatic plants or any other unwanted pets into the woods or anywhere else. Either re-home them or destroy them humanely, but never dump them.