What is coppicing?
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- Jon Rau from the Forestry Commission explores the traditional woodland management technique of coppicing. He explains what coppicing is, what it involves and the potential uses of wood products from coppice.
Jon describes the wildlife benefits of coppicing in more detail in a complementary video: • The wildlife benefits ...
Filmed on location at Crab Wood (with thanks to Hampshire County Council) and at surrounding woods in Hampshire. In association with Out There Films. Directed by Eleanor Tew, Forestry Commission.
Admire how this vid gets right to the point, no meandering. Thank you.
Kind of makes me feel like coppicing some trees.
Thanks. One of the best videos on the basic principles.
Jon Rau from the Forestry Commission explores the traditional woodland management technique of coppicing. He explains what coppicing is, what it involves and the potential uses of wood products from coppice.
Coppice is actually a different spelling of the word copse. It should actually be pronounced copse, it's an older version of the same word.
I hope the people who want to ban wood stoves see this.
If wood stoves become more popular, they will stop more carbon than they will emit because it will require more wood to be grown, which means a lot more people will be pollarding trees and managing forests and planting forests more effectively.
This is, assuming that everyone using a wood stove would be well versed in forestry or have someone willing to instruct them, show them the ropes.
In various parts of the world (at least in my country, which has plenty of very underdeveloped rural areas) people might not know of coppicing nor have any way to learn. Some outright don't know how to read, others do but there's no relevant literature available to them, and most rural folk (who aren't in an english speaking country) don't know english, which severely limits what information they could find online, if they're even tech savvy enough to browse the internet. TV channels are full of hot garbage, radio is no good either.
What is this backwater I speak of, you might ask? Lots of eastern-european countries have rural areas like this, some are in the EU too.
Often they just burn whatever firewood they chopped (sometimes the wood is illegally sourced) or purchase "firewood bricks" if they can even afford that.
Sir in simple words what is meant by coppicing and when we will do it
This makes me wanna go out and coppice some woods but then I remembered I live in the tropics.
Don't you have tree species that regrow from stumps?
Great job on the narration
Can coppicing be used for CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) production?
Beautiful! Let’s hope they can coppice the poor sycamore tree by Hadrian’s wall 🌳
Which is the best tree species to undergo with coppicing?
Mentioned at about 0:45
Depends what you’re after, if you want firewood and it’s marginal wet ground, go for alder.
I love coppicing I don’t know why
If you like coppicing wait until you hear about pollarding.
What trees are those ?
Ash, Hazel, Alder, Sweet Chestnut. 00:46
Can all plants coppice?
No and the ones that can be need to be coppiced from an early age, you can't take a 20 year old tree that can be coppiced and expect it to regrow if you cut it down
Wont animals try to eat the fresh shoots though?
They stack some of the old wood on top of the area to shield it from harsh sunlight. I imagine that would also help to keep away some of the larger animals.
IrishBard , that is the idea!
@@TreemanDan84 Aye
@@Zanzubaa This would kill the new growth. Hazel needs sunlight
@@TreemanDan84 That would not produce decent straight wood
1:09 - 1:22
To answer the opening question, yes, that is the destruction of woodland. Leaving that many huge standards crowding out your coppice WILL destroy it. A lesson the forestry Comission somehow hasn’t learnt in the slightest, despite owning so much poor decaying coppice.
I prefer dense, un-spoiled woodland over a managed area like this. I realize it benefits some species though, it just does not seem like the natural state if things. I mean, maybe the outer edges of a forest would have looked like this, with open land slowly being seeded with new growth.
It makes me sick we have so little forest and woodland here in the UK and that is living near the South Downs where there is relatively alot of trees.
thing is these woods arent natural in the first place. everywhere human went they tamed the forest in a certain way. all sorts of animals flock to these light flooded places in the woods to graze. the human soul needs untouched places. but the human settlement needs sustainable resource in a way that keeps the balance intact. elephants trample glades to have a meeting place, too.
Well id argue that management is important to ensure that tertiary succession can happen as without a roving population of grazers it won't happen. So sadly the balance has been upset by removing pieces of wildlife like, aurochs, wolves, bears, mammoths, giant elk etc. and we will never go back to that so humans will have to play that role.
@@michaelbalfour3170 Even deers commonly coppice trees. It happened to new willows I wanted to pollard, maybe there wasn't enough grass left in the winter, and some deers chose it would be the shorter version by eating my willow shoots !
Also most people can't imagine that large groups of animals have a very strong effect on the forest. When their population grows too much, which sometimes occurs in natural cycles, or when food is lacking, it can force them to eat bark and kill larger trees than my willow shoots ! And I'm not talking about elephants here.
About lawns, many nature lovers don't like them, they say it's not "natural", but in areas rich in wildlife you can find grazed areas similar to lawns, around the places where large herds rest !
Primary forests disappeared from Europe long ago, even in the remotest areas of the planet they cut the oldest trees, same for wet areas, drained and converted for agriculture nearly everywhere... except Florida and the Arctic maybe.
Human population is doubling every 40 years, so does the room we need for living and growing food. No need to look further than that, all the rest is lies and political BS, included the greens, Greta, carbon credits and the likes, imho.
@@smartcatcollarproject5699 well the population is believed to plateau at 11 billion and many developed countries will shrink in population. New agricultural systems have to be developed growing in cities vertically is likely the only option. However, I digress. Yes animals can be a huge burden on forests (hence deer fencing), the sheep herds of Scotland have left it a bald country and people call that "natural" and like that wet desert landscape.
@@michaelbalfour3170 True, at some point the whole Mediterranean area, North Africa included, was supposed to be covered with cedar forests, but the growing population and their needs in wood (bronze/iron Age and its forges) and the succession of cattle, sheeps, then goats, transformed it into a permanently semi-deserticarea 2000 years ago.
About some hypothetical dip in population in developed countries, it happened in the 1970's already, but finance imposed growth at any cost by opening the gates to massive immigration, which is still going on today, and outside of Russia and Japan, no developed country ever saw its population drop after that ! This is obviously not going to change except for some catastrophic event... and the coronavirus episode may well have the opposite effect, when you lock billions of couples together for weeks, you can bet what will happen 9 months later...
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That is destruction of woodland as those coupes have been cut 1 acre at a time for centuries and each coupe was marked by taller stools. All this has now been cut out in one huge swathe which will grow back at the same time. The same thing was done to a neighbouring estate where the culprit is now banned from cutting. This is unsustainable bad practice.
+Andrew Birnie I presume you're saying that it is bad practice to coppice many hectares simultaneously, not that coppicing is bad practice.
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SUBURBAN556 KUCING I continue the practice of cutting one small coupe at a time spread over a huge area. The woods in this video are now seriously damaged by deer browsing and scraping the wood which makes it unprofitable to cut in future so that the wood grows out of cycle which creates a dark and crowded landscape unattractive to the endangered wildlife that rely on the continuous cycle of intervention by Coppicing. With traditional practices, it’s important to know the details and follow good practice. There is always a valid reason why things are done a specific way.
@SUBURBAN556 KUCING When woodland was managed as coppice for many centuries it was cut in one acre coupes. The area coppiced in the video is massive and is now growing back at the usual rate but has suffered from deer damage. It’s such a vast area and there’s a shortage of skilled workers to continue the laborious task of Coppicing it. Additionally, the burl stools have also been cut to ground level wiping out a special local feature which marked out the coupes and can be traced back to early medieval times.Coupes were cut in one acre plots as it’s a manageable size to work in one season. This also creates a kind of patchwork mosaic of different heights of regeneration which provides specific habitat for many endangered species. Traditional practices are best continued as they have evolved over many years and cannot be improved upon without negative consequences.