Link through to Wytham Wood book website
Wytham Wood – Woodland Management and Wildlife Conservation Day
Date: Thursday 23rd August
Location: University Field Station, Wytham, Oxfordshire OX2 8QQ
Organiser: Oxford Nature Conservation Forum
Contact: Hilary Phillips – bap@oncf.org.uk – Please contact Hilary to reserve your place or with any questions.
Cost: £12 Oxford Nature Conservation Forum members, £15 non-members
Target audience:
Anyone who owns and manages woodland and want information to help them make the right management decisions for their particular site.
This workshop aims to help provide the confidence to make and implement the right management decisions for woodlands.
Please bring outdoor clothes, boots and indoor shoes. Lunch will be provided.
Presenters:
- Nigel Fisher Conservator of Wytham Woods,
- Keith Kirby Former Woodland Officer,
- Natural England, Dr Danielle Linton: Bat Researcher and Ecologist, Oxford University
Topics will include:
The woodland environment
- Overview
- Main issues facing the woodland environment
- Sources of funding
Creating and managing woodlands
- Introduction – definitions – range of types, importance of management, wildlife, distinction between functions, i.e. biodiversity, ecosystem services
- Woodland management and creation principles – overview, examples and signposting to further information
Bats and woodland management
- Identifying and assessing sites
- Practicalities
Site visit:
- Habitat creation,
- Habitat management
- the bigger picture
Oxford Nature Conservation Forum – Website
Wytham Wood – Website
