{"id":2169,"date":"2011-10-10T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2011-10-10T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:56:35","slug":"coppice-by-product-may-have-a-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/2011\/10\/coppice-by-product-may-have-a-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Coppice by-product may have a use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chance conversation at the <a title=\"Holker Garden Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardeningforhealth.com\/contents1a\/?s=holker\" target=\"_blank\">Holker Garden Festival<\/a>may have led to a use\u00a0for previously discarded brash, a by-product of coppicing South Lakeland\u2019s\u00a0extensive woodlands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2172\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fascines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2172\" title=\"faggots or fascines can be inserted into the banks of the river with sharpened wooden stakes.  Pic SCRT\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fascines-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"faggots or fascines can be inserted into the banks of the river with sharpened wooden stakes.  Pic SCRT\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">faggots or fascines can be inserted into the banks of the river with sharpened wooden stakes. Pic SCRT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When <a title=\"SCRT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scrt.co.uk\/cfinns\" target=\"_blank\">South Cumbria Rivers Trust <\/a>Manager, Pete Evoy met coppicer Sam Ansell\u00a0he knew that many of the area\u2019s rivers and streams would benefit from the\u00a0addition of woody debris that would provide shelter for the insects that\u00a0provide a vital part of the river food chain as well as protecting fish\u00a0fry from predation.<\/p>\n<p>Sam was keen to cooperate and quickly produced a trial batch of small\u00a0diameter wooden brash bound together with degradable sisal.<\/p>\n<p>These bundles, termed faggots or fascines, can be inserted into the banks of the river\u00a0with sharpened wooden stakes.<\/p>\n<p>The initial batch was employed on the River\u00a0Bela leased by Milnthorpe Anglers from Dallam Estate; here the fascines\u00a0were used to reinforce a bank section that had become eroded due to the\u00a0loss of an oak tree.<\/p>\n<p>Although the work party went well the real test will arrive with the\u00a0winter floods. Hopefully, the fascines will remain in place trapping the\u00a0river sediment and providing much-needed shelter for the river\u2019s smaller\u00a0inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well fascines may become a common means of\u00a0assisting river improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chance conversation at the Holker Garden Festival may have led to a use for previously discarded brash, a by-product of coppicing South Lakeland\u2019s extensive woodlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1472,4013,4019,453,4020,4018,4024,4012,4015,4021,4014,4010,4009,4011,4023,4022,112,86,4016,4008,4017,4007],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-featured","tag-banks-of-the-river","tag-chance-conversation","tag-coppice","tag-coppicing","tag-degradable","tag-evoy","tag-faggots","tag-fish-fry","tag-initial-batch","tag-predation","tag-river-food","tag-river-improvements","tag-river-sediment","tag-rivers-and-streams","tag-scrt","tag-sisal","tag-south-cumbria","tag-south-lakeland","tag-trust-manager","tag-winter-floods","tag-wooden-stakes","tag-woody-debris","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}