Does anyone know the master plan? Are they removing the lot or just thinning areas out?

If they remove them all, where will the fairies live?????

Yeh,was up there a couple of weeks ago and it was a right mess. Lots of windfall trees as well.

Ask her, although she may say it’s none of your business 😉

http://www.bradford.gov.uk/asp/councillors/details.asp?id=38

Still shocked at the amount of trees felled in Esholt.

They’ve been selective in removing some trees in certain areas, I’m wondering why they would do that.

Haven’t seen the Esholt devastation yet. Not sure I want to.

They are privately owned woods initially planted by the current owners father back in the 1920’s, he purchased the land and planted the first trees as a commercial wood business, initially the wood processing was actually done on site. Shame though, all those lovely trails gone, was walking there yesterday trying to locate old trails but all gone, some new ones emerging though. Site is going to be totally replanted apparently as part of the ongoing business.

Entonox, all the bottom section of the DH trails have been pretty much wiped out. All the trees gone from that side of the path up 🙁

As far as I know the recent work in Cottingley is just thinning and work has now finished, so hopefully some of the old trails might reappear 😉

nah the bottom section at Esholt isnt that bad,
I cleared the first sweeping berm and both sets of doubles afterwards today, took a lot of swinging the axe to get through the branches.
but we cleared the run to the wall gap on new years day and then the first three jumps after the wall, now got to clear the rest and dig in a couple of jumps and berms and it will all be back, the tyre tracks wont take much to sort out.
plus new jumps been added and improved on the top section already
The Esholt hive have been working hard.
put some drainage channels in to stop it being too wet over the next few months

That’s good to know Simon. I think they just might 🙂

It was a dog walker that told me but work does seem to have stopped.

St Ives is on the list as well. Thinning out pines and clearing rhododendrons above Lady Blantyres Rock and around the Permissive BW including a small forest road behind LBR.
Also, a survey was published 12 months ago or so asking what people wanted to do with Betty’s Wood (the bottom pine forest above Brown Cow Pub). At the very least, that will be thinned out.

That’ll do for me. Dog walkers know everything.

St Ives too?

Are you doing much local riding Boris?

Just at the weekends. You getting out much?

Yeah, usually Saturday pm or Sunday am, Tuesday night ride, and don’t tell anyone but I’ve bought a road bike for winter commuting a couple of days a week 😯

Jesus not you too 😀

Some of the old trails seem to have come back! 🙂

Must be that Cottingley magic innit. 😀

It’ll be those fairies.