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Site ID |
Site Description |
Long Term Aim |
Operation |
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Wet grassland |
Floodplain, with rush pasture |
To maintain and enhance the value of grassland to wildlife |
No artificial input (fertiliser) |
On-going |
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Wet grassland |
Floodplain, with rush pasture |
To maintain and enhance the value of grassland to wildlife |
Ensuring grazing is continued, preventing the rush from becoming to dominant, whilst maintaining/creating further mosaics of short swards and tussocks of rush |
On-going |
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Arable field margins |
6/2 metre grass strips |
To create a variety of habitats within the margins |
Top the inside 3/1 metres (adjacent to crop) allowing for a shorter sward for ground feeding birds, whilst maintaining tussocky sward for invertebrates and small mammals |
2003 -onwards (After mid July) |
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Arable field margins |
6/2 metre grass strips |
To reduce pernicious weed infestations |
Spray margins using most selective weedkiller. Time spraying to hit the weeds while they are small plants and vulnerable to low dosages. |
On-going Early spring |
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Arable field margins |
6/2 metre grass strip |
Prevent artificial inputs |
Care must be taken to avoid spray-drift or accident fertiliser application. |
On-going |
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Wet woodland |
Alder carr, adjacent to the Eden Brook |
To maintain the unique habitat |
Continue the low intervention approach. Consider coppicing some alder in future, to prevent complete shading from the canopy. |
On-going Coppicing - 2006 |
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Ponds |
Ponds surrounded by trees, as well as open ponds |
To protect the ponds and surrounding habitat |
Ensure that all ponds are protected by buffer zones, avoid the use of pesticides in the surrounds and prevent the use of fertilisers. |
On-going |
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Ponds |
Ponds surrounded by trees, as well as open ponds |
To support a range of aquatic species on the farm |
Maintain a range of specialised pond types - damp shady hallows, temporary ponds which dry out annually, shaded ponds and un-shaded ponds. |
On-going |
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