HELVEX LIFE project - Activities Boterbergen
The planned felling of the forest edges in Boterbergen is currently two weeks behind schedule.
The contractor is still busy clearing the branch wood, so there will still be inconvenience from tractors and trucks coming and going.
Once these works are over, parts of the forest edges will be ploughed, with the aim of having half of them develop into a sunlit heath along the footpath. The remaining half of the forest edge, between the heath and the existing forest, will spontaneously develop into a shrubbery with young trees. The entire month of February will still require the contractor to plough.
Where spontaneous development does not take off, shrubs and trees will be planted in autumn 2020. This will mainly involve species such as pedunculate oak, rowan and hazel, which have enormous added value for nature. It is a large-scale intervention that many hikers have questioned. Once the clearance work is over soon, peace can return and it will be back to nature.
In the summer of 2020, the contractor will continue to work on removing the rhododendron in the north of Boterbergen. But no more clearings or forest edges will be created. All the existing forest will be retained as woodland.
Footpaths Blueberry, Oak and part of footpath Ree are currently very difficult to walk on. But all paths around Boterbergen will be restored after the removal of the material, so that recreationalists can once again enjoy them to the full.
We hereby ask for your patience.
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