Luckily I really like trees....grumbles amongst my group wouldn't agree!
On the 26th April we attended an Oakwood study meeting in west Dorset at Melbury Park. The aim was to visit and understand the application of continuous forest management, or CCF as the bigwigs like to call it.
A tour around the vast estate revelaed numerous plantations and associated methods to manage and ultimately harvest timber.
It was a thoroughly fantastic day with a great opportunity to experience real world managment procedures...and it doesn't seem like such a bad life!
The day ended with a brief tour of the deer park (where these photos are from)...it was an impressive place with hundreds of deer. In particular, an ancient oak
tree, I think I recall it was 600 to 700 years old. Spectacular!
Brief description: Deer park, with woodland and agricultural land of c.300ha, with central landscape and gardens of c.15ha. C18 landscaping, with extensive C19 and C20 planting of rare trees and shrubs.
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