Woodland tracks and paths
by Angus, 14 August, 2016, 8 comments
Tracks and paths are an amazingly important element of any woodland - they are the arteries along which management tasks will be done and the viewing points from which you will see what's happening in your forest. Usually owners just live with the tracks that have been there for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years, but you can vary the routes or even build new tracks. Woodland tracks are also often called "rides", presumably because they would have been maintained in order to ride around the woodland on horseback.
In creating and maintaining tracks, the key variables are - the soil type, the slope and the tree cover. Read more...