GVCG Volunteers met on the 22.11.21. on Dersingham Bog. Here Tom from Natural England, who manage the area, said the task was to cut back to ground level small saplings of pine, silver birch and rhododendron that had seeded earlier then grown within the heather. While this action was sufficient to kill the pine, the remaining exposed stem of the silver birch and rhododendron had to be treated with a herbicide to kill the remaining roots. The members were asked to work a strip of the hill side in pairs when a member of Natural England, dressed in full protection attire, followed them and treated the exposed stem as soon as the sapling was cut. This exercise was carried out on all the young plants of both rhododendron and silver birch species. At the end of the morning Tom thanked the member of GVCG for all their efforts to remove saplings from the heather.
