Wildlife Trust Conservation Volunteers Task List 7 – 28th September 2011 – 14th March 2012

Date Reserve Task – All start at 10.30 am. Meet 28th September Scrub management in Scrublands Bottom, below the line of the old Roadside at reserve entrance ST486 514 2011 fence. Please car share if possible 12th October Cooks Fields Clearing scrub from the historic lynchets at Cooks fields to help Deer Leap car park ST 520 494 preserve them. ( to Road) 26th October Callow Bank Continuing scrub & bramble clearance on the fields above Cheddar Callow Rocks SWT office car park at ST Wood. We will probably use one or two brush cutters on this task. 447 560 9th November Velvet Bottom Removal of scrub at the Charterhouse end of this reserve. Roadside at the Charterhouse end of Velvet Bottom ST 503 555 23rd November Cheddar Wood Edge Continuing the removal of scrub that is invading the flower rich Park on roadside in Cheddar Road limestone grassland below the wood. We will probably use one or two ST439 546 brush cutters on this task. 7th December Hollow Marsh Our twice yearly visit to an East Mendip reserve; removing scrub Park on the roadside just in Pitway Lane, from these flower rich damp meadows. A long walk in, but tools will just off A37 at Farrington Gurney. ST go by truck. 627 556 21st December Black Rock Christmas task! Please bring festive fare to share. Black Rock Gate ( Road) ST 482 545 4th January Draycott Sleights Continuing the 28th September task Roadside at reserve entrance ST486 514 2012 Please car share if possible 18th January Lots Grassland Hedge Planting Park in reserve at ST 478 564

1st February Warren A first visit to this reserve at Charterhouse, across the road from Roadside at the Charterhouse end of Velvet Bottom, where we will be removing scrub. Velvet Bottom ST 503 555 15th February Bubwith Acres Scrub management, plus a chance to see the dewpond we restored. Park in the lay-by (for “Totty Pot”) at the top of the Gorge Road at ST486 535 29th February Draycott Sleights Continuing the 28th September task Roadside at reserve entrance ST486 514 Please car share if possible

14th March Black Rock Nature Trail maintenance; sign and step repairs. Black Rock Gate (Cheddar Gorge Road) ST 482 545

Contact Chris Billinghurst on 01761 221579 or Kate Lawrence on 01749 870108 to book or for more details ** Parking limited; car share if possible On all summer tasks there will be more opportunities for guided visits to other parts of the reserve on which we are working