Wildlife Trust Conservation Volunteers Task List 9 – 26th September 2012 – 27th March 2013

Date Reserve Task – All start at 10.30 am. Meet 26th September Repairs to the nature trail steps. Cutting back top path. Repairing Black Rock Gate ( Road) 2012 Longwood walls where possible without damaging ground flora. ST 482 545 10th October Dry stone walling and cutting gorse to re-instate main path Roadside at the Charterhouse end of Warren Velvet Bottom ST 503 555 24th October Step repairs on the popular nature trail and scrub clearance Black Rock Gate (Cheddar Gorge Road) Black Rock ST 482 545 7th November Dry stone walling and continuation of the scrub clearance started last Deer Leap car park ST 520 494 Cooks Fields year. ( to Road) 21st November This reserve has some botanically interesting limestone slopes and we Park in the lay-by (for “Totty Pot”) at the Middledown will remove encroaching scrub and bramble. top of the Gorge Road at ST486 535 5th December High pruning of the arboretum and burning of the cut material To be advised Kings Hill Gully 18th December Bramble and bracken clearance in the combe. Christmas bonfire and Black Rock Gate (Cheddar Gorge Road) Black Rock festive fare ST 482 545 2nd January There should be good views across Somerset as we clear scrub from Roadside at reserve entrance ST486 514 2013 this amazing reserve. Please car share if possible

16th January We visit a new site below the track to start scrub clearance as stock Callow Rocks SWT office car park at ST Callow Bank are moved onto the area we cleared last year. 447 560 30th January Yoxter / Chancellors Hedge planting and scrub clearance on the ranges. Chancellors Farm off the B3135 Farm Plummers Lane at ST525 526 13th February A chance to try hedge laying to help restore the boundaries on this Park in reserve at ST 478 564 or in lay-by Lots Reserve grassland reserve close to entrance (weather dependent) 27th February A sheltered site above Cheddar, continuing the on-going scrub Park in the lay-by (for “Totty Pot”) at the Bubwith Acres management. Walk in from Cheddar Gorge road. top of the Gorge Road at ST486 535 13th March Clearing scrub and bramble from the Charterhouse end of the reserve. Roadside at the Charterhouse end of Velvet Bottom Velvet Bottom ST 503 555 27th March Chancellors Farm Dry stone walling and general maintenance tasks. Chancellors Farm off the B3135 Plummers Lane at ST525 526

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