Pictures of LCV: Habitat work
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| Description: | Cutting down and burning rhododendrons is a popular winter task. We cut them down because they are an invasive and destructive weed. We burn them because it is an efficient way of breaking down the branches. |
| Work site: | Barfad Farm |
| Photo credit: | Greg Milne |
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| Description: | Sea buckthorn provides a useful winter source of berries for birds, but it is very invasive. Here one of us is digging out small sea buckthorn plants to prevent the thicket in the background spreading into the grassland. |
| Work site: | Aberlady Bay |
| Photo credit: | David Monaghan |
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| Description: | Ragwort has attractive yellow flowers, but is very poisonous to livestock. Here, we have been pulling ragwort, and one of us is carrying bags of the plant along the course of an old railway. |
| Work site: | Loch Fleet |
| Photo credit: | Edel Sheridan |
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| Description: | Here we are cutting out and raking up brambles that are spreading over grassland. The grassland has since been turned into a wild flower meadow. |
| Work site: | Bawsinch |
| Photo credit: | David Monaghan |
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| Description: | Rhododendrons thrive in the warm wet climate on the west coast of Scotland, and although they have beautiful flowers, they have a devastating effect on the local plant life. The National Trust for Scotland have put a huge effort into controlling them on the Isle of Arran. Here we are working with them to cut and burn rhododendrons. |
| Work site: | Isle of Arran |
| Photo credit: | Edel Sheridan |
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