Friends of Clifton Farm Woodland

The friends and I decided to make some changes to our little woodland. Originally we had a stick border. We used bundles of sticks to frame the borders of the paths throughout the woodland. Over the last two weeks we had decided to use thicker pieces of timber with a range of diameter from 75mm to 150mm. The benefit of these larger logs are that they are less likely to move out into the pathway and cause injury. They also take a lot longer time to break down and rot. In doing so they will provide homes for detritivores, bugs, beetles, and insects. I delivered eight logs that volunteers and I had processed on behalf of the East Lancashire Wildlife Trust volunteer session yesterday. I dug out earth to seat the logs on the edge of the path and also to lower the chances of a log rolling out into where people walk.