CMA Events & Training

9.30 Welcome /Tea’s and coffees.
9.45 Introduction to Devon Wildlife Trust’s “Working Wetlands” project, including:
• Biodiversity of The Culm.
• The socio-economics behind managing Culm grasslands.
• Pros and cons with using cattle and ponies – grazing-links project.
• Working Wetlands machinery-ring.
• Managing difficult vegetation - swaling; flailing, & weed-wiping.
• Restoration techniques including: scrub clearance; conifer plantation removal and mulching, and green-hay spreading techniques (donor & receptor sites)
• Water resource management and the role of Culm in eco-system services.

11.00 Site visits – several local sites, looking in more detail at the range of topics discussed in the morning session.
1.00 approx. – bring a packed-lunch to eat on site (subject to weather)
1.30 Site visits – continues after lunch
4.00 approx. - workshop finishes

CMA Members £0
Non-members £35 (includes free membership)

To book a place please contact CMA Adminbistration email cma@writtle.ac.uk

at Denham County Park Denham Court Drive; Denham; Uxbridge; UB9 5PG.
"See how this busy multi-recreational countryside site manages its Woods; Walks; Water and Wildlife".

More information to follow.

20 years of LIFE+ on Orford Ness - hosted by the National Trust. The day will include a tour of the Ness to look at the history and ecology of the site and recent management work funded by an EU LIFE+ grant. Meet at Orford Quay. More info from CMA Admin. cma@writtle.ac.uk Also see website; www.lifealdeore.org

Pentwyn Farm Nature Reserve, Penallt, Monmouth, NP25 4SE

Course is 10am – 4pm

Course will include a presentation and a guided walk around Pentwyn Farm and Wyeswood Common, looking at Gwent Wildlife Trust’s work in managing a SSSI grassland site and recreating a wood pasture site on former intensive dairy pasture.

Please bring your own lunch.

CMA Members £free Non-members £35 (includes free CMA membership)

To book please complete booking from overleaf or contact CMA Administration: Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR Tel: 01245 424116 e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk

Meet at Island Cottage, Common Lane; Beccles Common,
Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9BX
This day is hosted by the Broads Authority Ranger Service and is arranged by CMA member Colin Hart.
10.00 Arrival (Tea, coffee) at Island Cottage (park in car park in Common Lane and walk to cottage).

10.30 Merging rangers - A look at the new Broads Authority combined Ranger Team, which bring together both the land and water management aspects of the role, aiming to improve efficiency and prioritisation of work in each area in response to funding cuts. A presentation by the Deputy Head of Ranger Services, Lucy Burchnall, which will include an overview of the new team roles and the challenges ahead.

11.30 Heritage interpretation – A site visit to Geldeston lock to look at the recent completed locks project. Local Ranger Colin Hart will give an outline of the grand project and its more modest outcomes.

12.30 Lunch (bring packed lunch or snacks/drinks available at Geldeston Lock Pub

13.30 Integrated Access The Canoe Project - We will take to the water by boat and discuss and look at the proposed canoe access project connecting access points along the Waveney valley. Views will be sought on ways forward, funding and design.

15.00 Final discussions and depart

CMA Members FREE Non-members Free on joining the CMA either beforehand or on the day

To book please contact CMA Administration:
Writtle College, Lordship Road, Writtle, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR Tel: 01245 424116 e-mail: cma@writtle.ac.uk