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Friends of Leckhampton Hill & Charlton Kings Common Friends of Leckhampton Hill & Charlton Kings Common FOLKtalk Issue 45 summer Free to members; non-members 25p 2014 Welcome to the 2014 Summer FOLK newsletter. In this issue: Front page –Report of the Countryside Management Association study day Page 2 – Ash die back report from Cheltenham Borough Council; Page 3 – Word search; Page 4 –Word from Wayne Page 5 –Introducing a FOLK member; Page 6 – FOLK work party report. Page 8 – Smokesignals, short items. Countryside Management Wayne Sedgwick was invited by the CMA of which James Blockley, Wayne’s predecessor, is a Board Association (CMA) Study Day member, to host the day jointly with the Charlton Kings Common June 18th Conservators of Cleeve Common. Wayne worked with Ellie Phillips of Cleeve Common and FOLK on 2014 FOLK raises its profile the day’s arrangements. Charlton Kings and Cleeve Commons were the joint venues for the CMA study day entitled Managing Peri-Urban Spaces for Multiple Use. A fine sunny day saw 19 countryside management professionals from as far afield as Derby, Suffolk and Hampshire, enjoying a programme of site visits, presentations and round table discussions. Study delegates transported across Cleeve Common The plan was to give delegates an appreciation of the management issues of Cleeve and Charlton Kings Commons and an opportunity to share experiences of their own sites so that examples of best practice would emerge. The day started at Cleeve golf club when the 19 delegates were split into two groups. Logistics Wayne briefs CMA delegates on Charlton Kings rivalling a military operation were needed to Common transport one group to bodies around the regions and that it is helpful to Charlton Kings Common. share good practice and to ensure there is broad Comments from Before the site tour started discussion of issues with all parties. delegates to CMA Wayne gave an introduction study day to the site, Mike Donnelly, Special thanks to Wayne and Ellie, Mike Donnelly, Really well FOLK Work Party Coordinator, John Harvey and all FOLK volunteers for staging a planned visits. talked about FOLK and John successful and enjoyable event. Fabulous sites Harvey, FOLK lead on grazing, Wayne Sedgwick CBC from a new briefed the group on the perspective. Grazing Plan. FOLK volunteer Chalara fraxinea: ash dieback and Thank you drivers Tim Sugrue, Geoff Holt, Malcolm Geddes and Tony Leckhampton Hill It is reassuring to Childs then ferried the group hear issues Much of Leckhampton Hill is covered in ash trees. to Cleeve and a minibus, spoken about These are likely to be all self-sown native ash piloted by Cleeve volunteers, that I too share. species-Fraxinus excelsior. Many of these are large brought the other group from Now I know I am mature trees and some indeed, which abut the golf Cleeve for a re-run of the tour. not alone and course along Charlton Kings, could be considered the issues are A well-deserved buffet lunch to be “veteran ash pollards”. However due to their not isolated. was devoured at Cleeve by readiness to regenerate, many young ash colonise Tracey. delegates and volunteers. In open ground and indeed FOLK spend considerable effort removing such ash saplings from open Memorial wall the afternoon Dr Peter instead of Holmes of Natural England ground. It could be said that ash are one of the top three tree cover species of Leckhampton Hill. They benches – going gave a presentation on Future contribute much to the visual landscape as well as to use that idea! funding options and Interesting and opportunities in the light of having their own significant ecological and stimulating tours the end of the Higher Level arboricultural values. Stewardship scheme in 2016. and discussions. Ash dieback (Chalara fraxinea) was discovered in a The stark reality is that there Thank you Buckinghamshire nursery in February 2012. It was will be very limited funding for later discovered in the wider (i.e. natural) Great mix of future schemes like our own. sites (contrast). environment in Norfolk later that year. It is a wind Interesting To round off the day, Jo spread fungal infection. The fungus develops on points on grazing Burgon of the National Trust leaf litter after the first season of infection and on and scrub chaired a “round table” twig and shoot material the year after that. management discussion on topics including: techniques. grazing, access with dogs on protected sites, single farm Thank you very payments and nuisance much. The day species e.g. hemp agrimony. has been very informative and Feedback from delegates I’m sure will judged the study day a come in useful in success. A notable conclusion future. Hannah. was that similar issues may be dealt with differently by regulatory and advisory Devils Chimney with Ash tree background FOLKtalk Newsletter Spring 2014 2 During first season of infection, dieback within the are to take proportionate and cost effective action crown appears throughout the summer. Leaves when it has been found. wither and die, turning black whilst still attached to It is thought that the genetic code of our native ash the stems. Small fungal fruiting bodies (which produce the spores) appear on the leaf stems stock is slightly different than that found on the between June and October (mainly July and apparently decimated ash stocks in many countries on mainland Europe. As such it is hoped that there August). The following year “diamond shaped” lesions appear on the twig work which when split may be a greater degree of genetic resistance to open longitudinally have stained the wood under this disease. However it is also considered that as trees have been found to be infected in the wider the bark. This staining is available to see environment that it will spread. It is not clear how throughout the year. quickly the spread will take place. There is a map The Forestry Commission have produced an on the Forestry Commission website showing excellent page on their website demonstrating how where the most recent cases of infection have to identify Chalara and what to do following your been identified either from nursery infected stock suspicions. Contact should be made to the or where it has been found “in the wild”. A Forestry Commission or to FERA (Food and confirmed report, in 2013, was of a diseased ash Environment Research Agency). They are likely to sapling located just outside Cirencester. The ask you to send them photographs of your findings nearest case of a “wild” tree being infected is in so take lots of photos of your suspected South Wales. leaves/twigs/trees and make a note of where the If (and when) Chalara fraxinea is found in samples come from. Cheltenham, further advice will follow but it is not anticipated that all ash trees will have to be removed upon infection-trees; can survive for many years and it depends on the trees maturity, vitality and location. The prevalence of honey fungus to act as a secondary infection will have a big impact on the future of the tree. Such honey fungus is mostly prevalent in woodland. Once a tree is dead, it does not contribute further to Chalara infection and tree removals especially in The result of Ash Die Back infection. Image from the Internet wooded environment may have a bigger negative impact on Leckhampton Hill than retaining dead In 2013 the Dept. of Food and Rural Affairs stock as standing deadwood. produced a management plan for effectively dealing with Chalara. Christopher Chavasse Senior Trees Officer The 4 key tasks are to Cheltenham Borough Council June 2014 1) Reduce the rate of spread, Avian word search 2) Develop resistance, 3) Encourage land owner and citizen In the last edition of FOLKtalk, we had an excellent surveillance, article on the birds seen on the Hill and Common. 4) Build economic and environmental resistance. Inspired by this article, resident brain teasing The long term plan is to produce strains of ash that expert Mary Paterson has penned us a bird- are resistant. In the short and medium term plans themed wordsearch. Fifteen of the many species FOLKtalk Newsletter Spring 2014 3 of birds mentioned in the article are hidden in the flexibility in the way the Common is managed and grid. The challenge is to find them. this flexibility will be built into the plan. Comments are awaited from Natural England and discussions Words may run from right to left, left to right, will continue between the Grazier, the Council and downwards, upwards or diagonally. There may be FOLK to develop a workable plan. Thanks are some overlap. You are looking for 21 words. extended to John Harvey for his unstinting efforts Thirteen letters in the grid are not included in the in production of the draft plan. 21 words listed. Two of these extra letters combine with 3 others to form a five letter unexpected feathered interloper. The remaining 11 letters should be read from top left to bottom right, giving a title to the list. O R U N I T R A M T E N N I L R B A D E R N E E R G L W O L L E Y N P I I A H C N I F I T N R R D L O G E I G R E B E Y K S P N D M U L A R K I E A M L L E I I P R F A L E E R T B W E H O U S E E The Title: − − − − − − − − − − − Interloper (unlikely to be found on the Hill) − − − − −? Footpath with scrub cleared on Windass Hill The Word from Wayne (Wayne Attention is moving onto management of the Sedgwick Senior Community Ranger, woodland aspects of the Hill and Common.
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