[Closed] Forestry Track Destruction Glen Ample

Shock horror.
Imagine carrying out maintenance on a man made track in a managed non-native forest, to ensure it's useable for when the timber is harvested.

If you actually read the article linked to it seems to be more about the fact that they've done a bad, unsafe job of it.

There are a lot of roads around here being upgraded to remove the timber.

There is of course less control over the private tracks. There was always going to be a significant impact from widening this, very busy and very viable, track. It does seem that there's a poor job being done to exacerbate the impact.

In these parts they sometimes don’t even clear the brash, it is just left all over the track and after harvesting the tracks are barely passable in places.

I was trying to keep an open mind but when the author complains that the operator is only required to restore the track to its current state, not to restore past "damage", it was pretty obvious where they're coming from. Likewise claiming that waiting a long time for a response to an email proves that the monitoring isn't working, rather than just that nobody took the time to answer it. Complaining "they didn't even thank me!" is the icing on the cake of that. And he seems to want them to build a time machine and reverse the planting.

Don't have an opinion either way on the works, I don't know the area and they're obviously in progress, you can only judge it once finished. In fact you can only really judge it in a few years once it's growing back in. I reckon much of the track has looked like this before. But I'm not going to give the author much credence.

It'll grow back, it's a tree factory not ancient woodland. If only you could see the damage done by professional trail builders putting access routes in for machinery and materials, looks horrendous whilst work continues, gone in a couple of years.

In these parts they sometimes don’t even clear the brash,

Often deliberate to stop the machinery churning up the tracks by spreading the weight

I guess people must be bored during lockdown or something

I rode it a couple of weeks ago, the 'destruction' lasts for a few hundred metres before the gate. I had assumed it was repairs of landslips or something.

Side note - not a great deal of fun on a gravel bike!

Glen ample used to have a stalkers path thru it. Wrecked by quads years ago and also the quads in places created another track.

I guess that not many on here regularly read Parkswatch posts then.