Sustainable Woodland Management Flashcards
What is coppicing?
- cutting the stems at ground level
- thinner stems regrow
- provides lots of thin sections of wood which are ideal for firewood
What is polarding?
It is like coppicing but carried out higher up the trunk so that areas with dear cannot reach the young shoots that are growing
How can woodland ecosystems be managed to provide resources in a sustainable way?
• trees are cleared in strips or patches
- woodland grows back more quickly in smaller areas between bits of existing woodland than it does in larger open areas
- cleared strips aren’t too large or exposed so soil erosion is kept to a minimum so newly planted trees are able to grow
• only native species are planted as they grow more successfully as they’re better adapted to climate
• coppicing or polarding
• planted trees are attached to posts to provide support and are grown in plastic tubes to stop them being eaten by grazing animals
- makes it more likely that trees will survive to become mature adults
• harvest timber from a different part of the woodland each year and rotate the area used to avoid clearing one huge area
- wider range of habitats is maintained
