Ancient Woodland Restoration - an online Fingle Lecture

It has been a challenging time recently and, during the ongoing pandemic, we may have lost contact with Fingle Woods after our travel and social time has been restricted. But in a bid to keep in touch, the Fingle Woods team has reinstated the regular series of evening lectures as online events instead of meeting at the Fingle Bridge Inn.October's lecture was presented by Eleanor Lewis and Dave Rickwood on the subject of Ancient Woodland restoration. Setting the ‘ancient’ context, it covered some interesting historical moments from the Elmhirst family and the Dartington Estate of the 20th Century, going back nearly 1000 years to the grisly murder of Thomas a Becket. Dave described, from a woodland manager’s point of view, how Fingle is now being restored to benefit wildlife, ensuring a continuity of species in the valley. He discussed how hundreds of hectares of Plantation on Ancient Woodland Sites or PAWS forestry in this beautiful Dartmoor valley will be gradually transformed into a more natural environment and explained how threatened species are being supported to recover while the locally produced timber from the conservation project is now finding a use in restoring peat bogs on the higher parts of the moor.For those who were not able to see the talk ‘live’ online, it has been recorded so you can watch it in your own time:[embed]http://vimeo.com/476320773[/embed][embed]https://vimeo.com/user62918987[/embed][embed]https://vimeo.com/user62918987/review/476320773/d28a8e2795[/embed]https://vimeo.com/user62918987/review/476320773/d28a8e2795https://vimeo.com/user62918987/review/476320773/d28a8e2795https://vimeo.com/user62918987/review/476320773/d28a8e2795