It might be worth asking the sussex wildlife trust as they have a youth ranger team which volunteers every Thursday carrying out practical conservation. Ask for renzo spano. Thanks, Robin. On Aug 30, 2012 5:15 PM, "Peter Hodge" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Phil Bance has alerted me to a heathland site near Bewl Water that is > being invaded by bracken and young birch trees. Because heathland in > East Sussex, away from Ashdown Forest, is such a scarce resource he is > keen to see the area conserved (it is about 2 acres in extent). > > Does anyone know of any voluntary groups (such as BTCV) that might be > interested in carrying out management work and if so then who is the > person to approach? The landowner has given permission for the work to > be carried out but does not have the necessary resources to do it. > > So far as I am aware the heath is not within an SSSI or SNCI. The land > cannot be positively allocated to a vice county - although it is in > Watsonian Kent (VC 16) it is actually within the modern administrative > county of East Sussex. However, Kent wildlife recorders have, in the > recent past, been unwilling to carry out surveys along several parts of > the Kent/East Sussex boundary because they claim the Watsonian line was > drawn in the wrong place and therefore there has been little data > collected for the site. > > Peter Hodge. > > >
