Visiting Machinery and Climate Change

The Forestry Commission have got some large machines in at the moment, parked at the forest workshop.



The intention is to mow within the plantations. At the moment forest staff cannot get in to select trees for harvesting or thinning because of the brambles. In the past these would have died flat before Christmas, been flattened by snow, and generally the plantations would have been passable in February, and accessible until June. Now the brambles continue to grow all year, and these monsters are the only way to do what nature once did free of charge.