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News of the Woods No 47 Summer 2011 and Annual Report 2010-2011 How Much Ancient Woodland Do We Have? Chiltern Woodlands Project News of the Woods No 47 Summer 2011 and Annual Report 2010-2011 How much ancient woodland do we have? Old hornbeam stubs at Keepers Wood at ncient woods have been continuously wooded since before 1600AD and Hyde Heath on the proposed route of HS2 cannot be replaced or recreated. They contain species, including the trees Athat although influenced by management by man, are also semi-natural in that inside they reflect the local growing conditions. Forest Schools The Chiltern Woodlands Project has started to update the ancient woodland inventory The Chiltern Woodlands Project for the whole of the Chilterns AONB. The inventory is maintained by Natural England Report 2010-2011 and used by the Forestry Commission and others to protect this important habitat. Special Trees and Woods of the Chilterns This work will add ancient woods under 2 ha that have not been included before and also review and revise the boundaries of other ancient woods. It is part of a News and Events programme that has been updating the inventory across South East England in recent years. Victoria Hume is carrying out the desk based map work and the Chiltern Woodlands Project has surveyed the woods. 33 sites were visited, which amounted to 64ha. High Speed Rail and Ancient Woodland The Chiltern Society is delighted to sponsor this Newsletter As part of environmental impact assessment we have calculated the numbers and areas of woodland directly impacted by the HS2 route through the AONB. The Chiltern Society organises a programme of over 130 guided walks each year, Numbers of different areas of woodland impacted 19 at least 2 per week, throughout the Chilterns. Our cycle group have a programme of Total Area likely to be destroyed 17.75 hectares weekly rides. Come and join in to discover a new area However, of these areas 7 are Ancient Woodland Sites (10.9ha) with potentially 2 further of the Chilterns. to be classed as Ancient woodland (0.62ha). Details on our website and on the calendar on our home page No planting of new trees can replace areas of Ancient Woodland destroyed. The areas We welcome new members destroyed are often parts of larger woodland. Habitats and colonies of both flora and Come and join people like you who love fauna when reduced in size or fragmented and separated are much less likely to survive and care for the Chilterns. and prone to eventual loss. The total area of woodland directly affected in this way is For details of walks/cycle rides 62.77 ha, 46.3ha of which is Ancient Woodland. volunteering opportunities and membership 01494 771250 12 small areas (2.5ha), although not destroyed, will be completely cut off by the route. www.chilternsociety.org.uk Any wildlife contained in these small fragments will be isolated from the main woodland areas with little chance of linking to other colonies. The Chiltern Woodlands Project is supported by the Chilterns Conservation Board, Buckinghamshire County Council, Three Rivers, South Oxfordshire, Chiltern, and Wycombe District Councils, Dacorum Borough Council, the Forestry Commission and the Chiltern Society. Registered in England as a Company Limited by guarantee no. 2357329. Registered charity no. 1002512. Forest Schools The sound of laughter in your woods he group of boys, using their initiative, worked mature woodland would provide different and a wider range of together moving the logs and discussing the best way experiences for them. Tto make mud cannon balls. Alongside them, the girls dug happily, not noticing the rain until one of them called out in I need alternative “ local woodland environments” that I can take delight ”look I have found a worm.” These children in brightly children to visit .You might not think of your woodland as “wild” coloured coats and wellingtons boots were taking part in a most but to children of all ages it could become a magical place, a unusual school lesson. They were part of our Forest School. place to test their physical skills and imagination, if they get to know it and observe how it changes through the seasons. As a Primary School teacher, I have always had an interest in Environmental Education and a belief that child-centred, hands- Buckinghamshire has a newly formed Forest Education Initiative on learning holds the key to good practice in education. I was Cluster group that hopes to put together a list of available overjoyed at the discovery of Forest Schools in woodland sites and contact details so that we can match schools Buckinghamshire and then was surprised to find out that Forest and woodland owners. There are other schools and educational School had been running in different parts of the UK since 1995 groups who would also like to visit woodlands in the Chilterns and no one had told me. I was soon to discover that Forest on a regular basis with their Forest School leaders. There are School was very different from Environmental Education and plenty of practical obstacles, like access, transport, toilet was unique in the way that it helps to build a child's self esteem arrangements, public rights of way, liability insurance that need in ways other aspects of the curriculum didn't. Qualified Forest to be discussed. A visit to any local woodland site is not School leaders use simple achievable tasks and encourage child- undertaken without detailed consideration of the risks and the initiated learning where no child fails. The wider curriculum ecological impact. This forms a key aspect of the level 3 OCN back in the classroom reaps the benefits as the children improve Forest School practioners qualification which will be held by all their communication and cooperation skills. They use maths and those leading groups in the woodland. science instinctively, unaware of the learning that is taking place. We know that you are proud of your woods and we would like to Originally the idea of Forest School came from Scandinavia, provide children with experiences that will benefit them where this teaching style is provided for children under seven, immediately and build for the long term future. They are the next before their formal education begins. It has been internationally generation of people who will truly want to preserve rich recognised as being beneficial to the development of the children environments and habitats for everyone to enjoy. and brings with it a greater respect for the natural world and nature conservation in later life. If you would like to hear laughter, squeals of interest, magical stories being rehearsed, shelters being made and real life (not Forest School has been defined by Forest School (England) as screen based) experiences being shared, please contact me. “an inspirational process that offers children and young people opportunities to develop confidence and self-esteem, through Mrs Mary Simons hands on learning experiences in a local woodland (Primary School teacher and Forest School Practitioner) environment”. Contact: [email protected] L. O'Brian and R. Murray. ( A marvellous Opportunity for Children to Learn: Forest Schools also take place in Pigotts Wood, where some 400 A participatory evaluation of Forest School in England and Wales (Farnham, children from the primary school have visited regularly in their Forest Research 2006) specially purchased minibus. They also started for the first time this spring in the Chiltern Our Environmental Area provides an interesting site with young Society's Bottom Wood where children from the Mary Towerton trees that are only twenty years old and areas of meadow, grass primary school in Studley Green now walk down to the wood verges and hedgerows. As I monitor the way that this small twice a week. group of children interact with this environment, I can see that a 2 Annual Report 2010-2011 For the period from 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011 The Chiltern Woodlands Project is a registered charity, its main activities are set out in its business plan for the three years 2009 – 2012. Continue to provide a range of expert advisory and training services supporting woodland owners, to improve management skills and knowledge so that a greater area of woodland is included within long term sustainable management plans. Expand our influence to ensure that woods in the Chilterns get the support they need, and to build a sustainable rural economy, including energy resources. Raise awareness, understanding and enjoyment of the Chiltern woodlands through the website, newsletters, publications, and events. Help owners commence restoration of ancient woods including plantations on ancient woodland sites. Specific work items include: Supporting the Chilterns Conservation Board's AONB Management Plan 2008 -13. Manage a Heritage Lottery funded project 'Special Trees and Woods' until June 2010. Promote the management of grey squirrels, deer and other pests. The full business plan document can be downloaded from the Chiltern Woodlands Project page on our web pages at www.chilternsaonb.org/caring/woodlands_project.html A new plan is being prepared to guide the charity's work in the changing economic climate. Chairman’s Report his is my last annual report as I retire as chairman in Do buy a copy of the book featuring 50 of the Special Trees and September after nine years in the role. It has been a Woods of the Chilterns, which was launched by Thomas Ttremendous pleasure to work with John and the Chiltern Pakenham at a special event last November Woodlands Project. John has a special commitment to the Chiltern woods and has, as usual, worked hard raising the Thanks are due to our active Board of Trustees for their efforts awareness of woodland owners and and to all our funding partners in this difficult the public in the importance of good financial climate.
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