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Plans to control squirrel levels in National Forest
Published: Tue 18 Jun 2013
SQUIRRELS are becoming an increasingly destructive pest in areas of the National Forest, meaning that plans will have to be implemented to control numbers.Deer are also having a damaging affect on trees in the forest area, which covers 200-square miles surrounding Burton, Swadlincote and Ashby.National Forest chief executive Sophie Churchill says that squirrels are the biggest challenge.“They are lovely and very much part of the National Forest but are also very destructive on young woodlands. They chew aroud the bark of a tree and, once a squirrel has ringed a tree, then it’s a problem. “The nutrients of the tree are in the bark, so if squirrels damage them in this way, then that tree dies above that ring.“Squirrels will need to be controlled in the National Forest, not eradicated - we wouldn’t want to do that and it’s not possible. But we will have to decide which woods we need to protect. Others might be more mature and therefore not at risk and we can leave them.”Sophie says that deer are also becoming a problem as their numbers grow. “They take out the ground cover up to a certain height,” she says.“For any wooded area to be a good ecosystem, you need that layer. “Again we don’t want to eradicate them but we may need to look at controlling numbers.“We are doing serious forestry not a jigsaw puzzle of what a woodland should look like. “Many of our woods are managed by landowners who are not foresters by background. So we need to help them work out what they need to do in their woods.“When the forest project began, there were areas where there wasn’t much wildlife left at all. Now we are seeing the return of things like woodland birds. People say you can’t have wildlife and public access, but we have both side by side in the National Forest.”
Court day looms after football disorder arrests
Published: Tue 18 Jun 2013
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Demand for land means greenfield development is 'inevitable'
Published: Tue 18 Jun 2013
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