You can coppice at any time of year, but you'll achieve the best results by
coppicing trees when they're dormant and leafless.
"These benefits still apply today and we are hoping to bring
coppicing back into mainstream use.
Countryside chiefs said
coppicing in rotation ensures a healthy re-growth of vegetation.
Coppicing is the ancient practice of cutting trees such as oak and hazel to ground level to encourage further re-growth.
Coppicing - cutting off trees and shrubs to ground level - stimulates vigorous regrowth and allows more sunlight to reach the woodland floor, encouraging the flowering of many woodland plants in Spring.
'We wanted to make it a practical event and encourage people to just come and have a go at
coppicing, which is easy to do and extremely good for the trees, as it opens up the woodland areas.'
They learned traditional skills of hedge laying and
coppicing at Tile Hill Wood.
Countryside services officers will be on hand to show members of the Really Green Discovery Team the ancient skill of
coppicing.
Even if the
coppicing was justified, which of course it is not, there was no need to clear areas half the size of a football pitch and destroy thousands of flowers.
Active woodland management includes hazel
coppicing, where stems are cut to create a stool from which new stems grow, while the cut wood is used for dead hedging.
VOLUNTEERS are being given the chance to learn the traditional woodland management skill of
coppicing next week.