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Winter Habitat Management 2024/25

Over winter, the Glorious Grasslands undertakes a programme of work across the Cotswolds to restore areas of grassland where neither cattle nor machinery can easily access.

<<2023/24 season

A cleared glade in a small woodland with vegetation cut close to the floor

Creating a glade by the river

Wed 6th Nov '24Thu 7th Nov '24

The first winter habitat management day with Glorious Grasslands is always a nice start to the season. A chance to catch up...

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A large clearing in a wood with a neatly stacked dead hedge on one boundary

Completing a second glade

Wed 13th Nov '24Sun 17th Nov '24

We returned to the same site as last week with Glorious Grasslands to continue the restoration of glades within a woodland area...

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A cleared patch of scrub in the middle of a grassland. Bramble just behind the cleared patch

Third year restoration

Wed 20th Nov '24Sat 30th Nov '24

We’ve been restoring a lovely 15 acre site with Glorious Grasslands for the last three seasons and the results of previous interventions...

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View across a floodplain valley with green slopes on the other side and spilled over water in the floor

Bank along the Windrush

Wed 27th Nov '24Sat 30th Nov '24

A new site today with Glorious Grasslands which has lots of development potential over the next three years. Located in the Windrush...

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Steep bank onto a flat field on the valley floor. Grass is cut. Dead Elm in foreground

Remote bank restoration

Wed 11th Dec '24Thu 12th Dec '24

It was a long drive today over to Oxfordshire to another new site with Glorious Grasslands. This is a remote corner of...

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A steep bank with two old Ash trees and grassland slope

Restoring Quarry Grassland

Wed 8th Jan '25Wed 8th Jan '25

Revisited a site we did last year with Glorious Grasslands to continue restoring a beautiful calcareous site within a former quarry. I...

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A village nestled in a valley next to a river

North bank of the Windrush

Wed 15th Jan '25Thu 16th Jan '25

Headed to a new site with Glorious Grasslands, which was just along the Windrush valley from another site we did earlier in...

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A landrover parked on a hilly field with a gate in the background

More fly and dukes

Wed 22nd Jan '25

Returned to a favourite site today with Glorious Grasslands where we last did habitat management at the end of 2023 and also...

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A woodland with cleared floor and logs forming a square in the middle

Raking up flys

Wed 29th Jan '25

Returned to the same site as last week with Glorious Grasslands to work on habitat restoration for the rare fly orchid and...

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