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Trust in the Forest Sept 07 Trust in the Forest Welcome to the September Issue of Trust in September 2007 Issue 3 In this edition: the Forest • Nature Notes • The Verderers of September is here already made of the last few Estonia and Scouts from all Epping Forest and I am not sure where months. over the world. Working • Ash’s Nature Notes the summer went, a with groups like these is a • Epping Fprest Pro- packed summer schedule Our groups have included real process of exchanging ject 818 and the wet weather have lots of local schools and skills and knowledge, we are • Weird and Won- brought us into autumn colleges as well as many able to introduce them to derful—Pale Tus- already. from Inner London. The Epping Forest and some sock Moth Cater- pillar diversity of people we practical skills while they • Scout Jamboree This summer has been our have met and worked with are keen to share their ex- • Dates for your busiest yet at the Trust, over the summer has been perience of tree felling in diary much of the summer term amazing, local college stu- their home countries and was spent with new groups dents with English as a the tools they would use or in the Forest and the sum- second language from the animals that they find in mer holiday was packed Bangladesh, Nigeria and their home countries and with Scouts and summer which ones they would eat. camp. Despite the rain, work on We have finished this sum- our conservation sites has mer tired but with smiles on continued apace, a visit to our faces there can’t be many either Warren Hill, Furze jobs with the variety and op- Ground or Long Running portunities like this! will reveal the progress Redbridge College students working on Fairmead Road Forest Hands—Pond Clearance Saturday 22nd September 2007 10.30—2.00 Another opportunity to get stuck into some practical work, this time we will be doing pond clearance work, digging out silt and clearing surrounding scrub and small trees. All ages and abilities welcome. Gloves, wellies and a barbeque lunch will be provided. We will meet at the car park of Golding’s Hill Road (A121) between the Wake Arms roundabout and Loughton. If you are interested in attending please contact us on 0208 508 9061. Trust in the Forest Page 1 The Verderers of Epping Forest by Richard Morris The office of Verderer goes back to the eleventh cen- Qvist and Sir William Addison when the objects of tury when William the Conqueror created Royal For- the Epping Forest Centenary Trust were drawn up ests in England in which he had the exclusive right to in 1978. hunt deer and to hold Forest Courts. Acts of Parlia- The Verderers take a keen interest in the activities ment were passed introducing a set of Forest Laws that of the Trust as part of their role in overseeing the initially were draconian in their penalties, but the pur- management of the Forest. Apart from the formal pose of which were to protect the King’s rights and to meetings of the Epping Forest and Commons ensure that the Forests were conserved for the benefit Committee at Guildhall, a ‘Local Meeting’ is held at of the deer. the Warren in alternate months, which is attended Each Forest was ‘managed’ by a Lord Warden under by the Chairman, Deputy Chairman of the Com- whom there were Keepers, Woodwards, Regarders, mittee, the four Verderers, and the Superintendent Reeves, and Agisters. Parallel with this administrative of the Forest. In a less formal atmosphere, a wide organization was a judicial system of Forest Courts. range of issues affecting the Forest can be dis- The lowest court was the Court of Attachments or cussed. On a day-to-day basis the Verderers receive Forty Day Court, at which the Verderers presided, and approaches from members of the public who may which was similar to the local Magistrates Courts, but have some concern about a particular part of the only dealing with offences against the Forest Laws. The Forest. The Verderers also liaise with the Superin- Verderers also presided at the Swainmote, the next tendent and his staff on any local planning applica- level of Court, but this time with a jury. The most sen- tions that may have an impact on the Forest. ior Court was the Court of the Justice Seat, which met The Verderers give talks to local organizations only every three years, and at which a peer of the realm and write articles about the Forest for newspapers presided. The Verderers were elected by the Freehold- and magazines. This link with the wider local com- ers of the County in which each Royal Forest lay. munity is an important part of the Verderers role in By the end of the eighteenth century the Monarch’s encouraging people to use the Forest, in addition to interest in hunting had waned and illegal encroach- their role of representing the Commoners. ments were being made in many of the Forests, includ- The five-year Management Plan, and the Annual ing Waltham Forest, which was made up of Epping Work Programme for the Forest, prepared by the and Hainault Forests. The story of how the public pro- Superintendent and his staff, are discussed in detail tested in the 1860-70s against the threat to Epping For- with the Verderers before being put to the Com- est, following the disafforestation of Hainault in 1851, mittee at Guildhall for approval. There will always and how the City of London became involved and be more work to be done in the Forest than re- saved the Forest from enclosure, is well known. sources available and the Conservators are very The Epping Forest Act of 1878 provided for the of- grateful to the several organizations, such as the fice of Verderer to continue but no longer with any Centenary Trust, who make significant contribu- judicial powers. The four Verderers have to live in a tions to the conservation of the Forest and the edu- Forest parish and form an important link between the cation of people to use it. Commoners who elect them every seven years, the Richard Morris wider local community, and the Epping Forest and Commons Committee of the City of London. The Verderers are full members of the Committee, with the same rights as the members of the Court of Common Council of the City who make up the sixteen members of the Committee. The two main provisions of the Epping Forest Act are that the Forest is preserved as an open space for the recreation and enjoyment of the public, and that the Conservators shall at all times as far as possible pre- serve the natural aspect of the Forest. These two provi- A group of Italian Scouts with the pile of sions were no doubt very much in the minds of Alfred Sycamore trees they felled. Trust in the Forest Page 2 Ash’s Nature Notes Summer is almost over and what was lucky enough to find a family It is a fantastic time to walk in the a summer it has been, even if it of willow warblers busy feeding Forest as there is so much to has not felt like it due to the vast amongst some Bracken and see and hear, there are bees amount of rain we have received Gorse. There was also an unusual buzzing around the Forest’s during the past couple of visitor seen at one of the Forest’s rides busy collecting pollen along months. The effects of this in- small ponds, a Ruddy Headed with other nectar feeding insects. creased rainfall are noticeable in Goose. It was probably an es- There are migrant birds such as the Forest unfortunately includ- capee from a local collector as the Warblers to be seen and if you ing far higher numbers of biting bird is a native of the Falkland Is- are lucky enough you could even insects this year! lands! catch a glimpse of a snake or lizard out basking in the sun. I Walking through the Forest I I have also seen plenty of butter- have been very lucky this year have noticed that the number of flies this year despite all the rain and I have counted large num- fungi are also high for this time of that we have had, good sightings bers of Common Lizards, Grass year. Trees that have been cop- in particular were a female Purple Snakes and even the occasional piced during the winter and Hairstreak along with both Small Adder out sunbathing. There spring have also grown a consid- and Large Skippers and Gate have also been many young erable amount with some achiev- Keepers. Other interesting insects Frogs and Toads spotted on the ing a metre or more in height. that have been seen this year in- Forest floor heading comically in clude: Rose Chafer, Downey Em- random directions. During the summer, the Forest erald Dragonflies, Brown, Migrant can be a very dark place espe- and Southern Hawkers, and Em- I recently went for a walk in the cially when walking under the peror Dragonflies. We also found a Forest one evening near Fair- mature Beech trees as very little Stag Beetle larva in a rotten tree mead Campsite and in the space light actually reaches the ground. trunk at Swaine’s Green. of an hour I saw two Muntjack, This is a typical feature of Beech dozens of Pipistrelle Bats and a woodlands as the branches form The number of trees producing Tawny owl.
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