October to March only, because summer work damages what we are protecting
The season
October to March. Coppicing, scrub clearance, and path work. Nothing at all between April and September except monitoring.
The work
Physical and outdoors in the cold. Bow saws, loppers, and dragging brash. Three hours with a fire and a kettle in the middle.
What happens in summer
Butterfly transects and moth trapping, which is entirely different work and needs about four people rather than twenty.
