by Rob Price | Dec 23, 2022 | Woodland Management
I arrived at Bron Haul in mid-November, although it didn’t feel like it, the crowns of the trees still thick with green and orange. Over the month that I would spend here I would see the landscape transform into a frozen kingdom, snow and ice laying over the...
by Dylan Hardy | Aug 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
I’m coming toward the end of my year with Broadleaf Wales under the RFS (Royal Forestry Society) Forestry Roots scheme and I think this is a good time to reflect on my past in forestry and to think about the future that lies ahead. Prior to my placement at Bron Haul,...
by Ruth Pybus | Jul 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
You may have noticed from… …plastered all over our website, that we’ve won the Royal Forestry Society’s 2022 Excellence in Forestry competition for the Small and Farm Woodland category. This year’s Best of the Best bout followed five years of regional competitions...
by Dylan Hardy | Apr 16, 2022 | Woodland Management
At Bron haul we are nearing the season in which to control the grey squirrel population, though we have had an early start because of the British Red Squirrel LANTRA course that David has begun to provide. On the course we went through different control methods and...
by Ruth Pybus | Mar 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
Basal area is a measure of how well stocked your woodland is. If you imagine looking down on a hectare of your woodland from a hot air balloon having removed all your tree canopy and trunk down to 1.3m (forestry’s ‘Breast Height’ above the ground), you would see...
by Dylan Hardy | Dec 28, 2021 | Products, Woodland Management
This season at Bron Haul we have been thinning one of our older blocks, (around 25 years old). Having passed my chainsaw ticket for felling trees upto bar length with Keith Webber, I have been putting my directional felling to the test. With the continuous cover...
