Langold Lake Management Plan - Bassetlaw District Council

Langold Country Park
NO LARGE AND/OR OLD BROAD-LEAVED TREES WILL BE FELLED, UNLESS
THEY FORM A SAFETY HAZARD WHICH CANNOT BE ADEQUATELY DEALT
WITH BY REMEDIAL SURGERY.
RETAIN LARGE PIECES OF FELLED AND NATURALLY FALLEN TIMBER IN SITU
THROUGHOUT THE WOOD, OR STACK IN HABITAT PILES.
ALLOW ALL ELM TO GO THROUGH NATURAL CYCLES OF FUNGAL ATTACK
AND REGROWTH, WHERE THIS CAUSES NO SAFETY PROBLEMS.
USE BRASH TO CREATE HABITAT PILES AND LEAVE SOME SCATTERED
TO PROVIDE DEAD WOOD ON THE WOODLAND FLOOR.
Costhorpe Plantation
There has been limited woodland work in Costhorpe Plantation in a least the last five
years, with any work concentrating on the removal of potentially dangerous trees. The
woodland structure is uniform in much of the wood, with even-aged stands of ash
trees. Diversification of the woodland structure is desirable.
Ensuring that there is a varied, scalloped woodland edge and rides will provide better
foraging areas for bats.
Outline Prescriptions
SELECTIVELY THIN SAME AGE STANDS OF ASH.
USE BRASH TO CREATE HABITAT PILES AND LEAVE SOME SCATTERED
TO PROVIDE DEAD WOOD ON THE WOODLAND FLOOR.
NO OTHER LARGE AND/OR OLD BROAD-LEAVED TREES WILL BE FELLED,
UNLESS THEY FORM A SAFETY HAZARD WHICH CANNOT BE ADEQUATELY
DEALT WITH BY REMEDIAL SURGERY.
RETAIN LARGE PIECES OF FELLED AND NATURALLY FALLEN TIMBER IN SITU
THROUGHOUT THE WOOD, OR STACK IN HABITAT PILES.
ALLOW ALL ELM TO GO THROUGH NATURAL CYCLES OF FUNGAL ATTACK
AND REGROWTH, WHERE THIS CAUSES NO SAFETY PROBLEMS.
OPEN UP SOME AREAS OF THE PONDS IN COSTHORPE
PLANTATION BY REMOVING INVADING SCRUB AND
FELLING/PRUNING OVERHANGING TREES. RETAIN ALDERS.
Lakes
There are two lakes – the upper and lower. The lower lake has had a lack of
submerged, emergent, floating and marginal aquatic vegetation. In the 1970s aquatic
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