Steeple Woods
What a difference!
There have been a lot of changes over the twenty or so years that the Reserve has been maintained by the volunteers.
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Steeple Woods
- Jul 15
Doh! A deer...
They are elegant, graceful and beautiful. No not the Volunteers, the Roe Deer that we share the Reserve with.
Steeple Woods
- May 2
#NoMowMay
The good people at Plantlife are asking for our help (and saving us a chore on our to do lists in the process).
Steeple Woods
- Mar 31
Cornish hedging project update
Visitors to the Reserve may have noticed that there are a lot of Cornish hedges dotted around the site.
Steeple Woods
- Mar 14
Unintended consequences
Research published in the British Ecological Society journal highlights the levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in dog waste...
Steeple Woods
- Feb 22
Educated guess
So, what links Bletchley Park code breakers, ecologists and a lot of missing trees?
Steeple Woods
- Dec 11, 2021
Where's the fire?
Visitors to the Reserve are starting to see more and more piles of bracken and gorse cuttings dotted around the site. Recently, the...
Steeple Woods
- Dec 8, 2021
Winter tree planting
One of the main jobs for the volunteers over the winter is tree planting. Winter is a great time for planting bare root saplings because...
Steeple Woods
- Dec 1, 2021
See weeds?
One of the ongoing battles for the volunteers is to control the spread of non-native, invasive plants that would otherwise take hold on...
Steeple Woods
- Dec 1, 2021
Bat Box Project update
The volunteers are working on a number of projects around the Reserve, one of which is to put up a number of bat boxes around the site to...
Steeple Woods
- Nov 26, 2021
Forest for Cornwall
Cornwall County Council is the landowner of the Reserve and the Steeple Woodland Project Group manages it on their behalf. The Council is...
Steeple Woods
- Nov 26, 2021
Ponds Project update
One of the bigger special conservation projects that the volunteers, lead by Chris, have been working on is to improve the ponds and...