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|  A stand of willows ready to be coppiced to let ligh on the stream and meadow.
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 Perfect fell
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 Start for the felling cut
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 Work in progress
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 End of the day, stupms will be taken down by chainsaw
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 Brash pile
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 Log pile
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 A plume of water fleas.
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 First area to cut, a mix of sedge, canary grass and water mint.
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 Setting up the scythes.
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 Work in progress.
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 Scythes at work.
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 Patches of water mint (Mentha aquatica) and water forget (Myosotis scorpioides) were left as the flowers are good for insects.
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 Cut and raked. Cuttings added to the habitat piles.
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 Greater water parsnip (Sium latifolium) is a nationally rare species.
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