POSTPONED! Cutting and burning up scrub to recover the flower-rich grassland at Curtis Fields SNCI in Weymouth

Curtis Fields SNCI Weymouth

For this visit to Curtis Fields we will be aiming to finish clearing and burning the area of scrub started by the EuCAN Dorset Midweek Volunteers last week and opening up the gap on the west side of the site to make an access for large contractors’ vehicles. We also want to finish moving the cut gorse from the banks next to the Markham Avenue houses and burning it on a firesite further into the SNCI. There’s a nice quiet job here for volunteers to cut the gorse into smaller lengths and load them into bulk bags for the quad and trailer to take away.

We have been making great progress on the SNCI (and the adjacent land – the ‘SANG’) over the past 2 years, removing the scrub that has developed here since the farming here stopped early in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s. The result has been a huge increase in the numbers of wildflowers and insects (especially butterflies). We will always leave enough scrub and woodland for the nesting birds and other wildlife.
Meet at 8.30am at the access off Markham Avenue or walk to find us if you arrive later – see map.
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We will provide the tools for the work, but please bring your own mug, hot drinks and snacks, your packed lunch and working gloves with you. If you have a bowsaw, secateurs and/or loppers please bring them.

If you are a chainsaw or brushcutter user, you will need your own PPE and you should have attended a refresher course in the last five years.
My phone number in case you cannot find us is 07981 776767.