Lee Walther
@leetheranger.bsky.social
Working for the National Trust on the South Downs, also part of Moor Barton Wilding in Devon, keen on local history and reading. I believe humans can be a positive keystone species and play our part with the more-than-human world. All views my own.
One of my favourite, if heart breaking in places books. Glad to see Doug still standing tall.
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
One of my favourite, if heart breaking in places books. Glad to see Doug still standing tall.
Love this thank you, we need nature.
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Love this thank you, we need nature.
When I worked 4 days it meant I had a day in the week to do housework, shopping etc and the weeknd with the family and friends. I love my current job but would be very happy with a 4 day week.
May 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
When I worked 4 days it meant I had a day in the week to do housework, shopping etc and the weeknd with the family and friends. I love my current job but would be very happy with a 4 day week.
Have been guilty of that myself whilst managing chalk grassland and heathland especially to our volunteers. I now tend to think of it as scrub coppicing (as it tends too grow back when no grazing is possible) but will try and get out of the habit and call it shrub coppicing instead.
May 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Have been guilty of that myself whilst managing chalk grassland and heathland especially to our volunteers. I now tend to think of it as scrub coppicing (as it tends too grow back when no grazing is possible) but will try and get out of the habit and call it shrub coppicing instead.
Brilliant video, dead wood rocks!
May 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Brilliant video, dead wood rocks!
It is a worry, Horsahm District Council have some fantastic nature reserves and a countryside team doing good work. What happens to them too? A suggestion apparently is that the Parish Councils will inherit the land.
May 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It is a worry, Horsahm District Council have some fantastic nature reserves and a countryside team doing good work. What happens to them too? A suggestion apparently is that the Parish Councils will inherit the land.
Amazing, I'm excited for you!
May 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Amazing, I'm excited for you!
I missed the dancing as had to leave to do the school run and get ready for work. Heres a picture from just after sunrise there this morning.
May 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I missed the dancing as had to leave to do the school run and get ready for work. Heres a picture from just after sunrise there this morning.
Fascinating, thank you.
April 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Fascinating, thank you.
My thoughts at the time were that a natural or near-natural (I know the Firest isn't completely untouched) forest allows regeneration that 1100 stems per hectare doesn't. I think our guide talked about that during our walk but cannot recall any figures.
April 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My thoughts at the time were that a natural or near-natural (I know the Firest isn't completely untouched) forest allows regeneration that 1100 stems per hectare doesn't. I think our guide talked about that during our walk but cannot recall any figures.
One of my first impressions when visiting the strict reserve last year was how much space there seemed to be amongst the trees, especially the mature ones, compared to some of the woods I work in. I went in early April before the leaves fully emerged so maybe it would be different in the summer?
April 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
One of my first impressions when visiting the strict reserve last year was how much space there seemed to be amongst the trees, especially the mature ones, compared to some of the woods I work in. I went in early April before the leaves fully emerged so maybe it would be different in the summer?
It's at Slindon, near Arundel in Sussex and on Friday May 30th we are having a celebration day recording wildlife and enjoying being out amongst the trees.
April 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
It's at Slindon, near Arundel in Sussex and on Friday May 30th we are having a celebration day recording wildlife and enjoying being out amongst the trees.
It is a fascinating place with lots of willow scrub, oak and beech, birch saplings, Nightingales singing for the first time this year. It's on it way to becoming a great Wood Pasture habitat with areas still deer fenced due to high numbers of Fallow present, but we are actively stalking them.
April 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
It is a fascinating place with lots of willow scrub, oak and beech, birch saplings, Nightingales singing for the first time this year. It's on it way to becoming a great Wood Pasture habitat with areas still deer fenced due to high numbers of Fallow present, but we are actively stalking them.
10 years ago the National Trust started the Rise of the North Wood project using combinations of natural regen - deer fenced, natural regen not deer fenced, planting deer fenced and seed sowing on a 150acre woodland site that was felled during WW1, then ploughed up again for WW2.
April 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
10 years ago the National Trust started the Rise of the North Wood project using combinations of natural regen - deer fenced, natural regen not deer fenced, planting deer fenced and seed sowing on a 150acre woodland site that was felled during WW1, then ploughed up again for WW2.