Friends of Old Sneed Park Nature Reserve

Fighting bamboo in a local nature reserve
We're a group of volunteers who run monthly work parties to manage Old Sneed Park Nature Reserve. There is an area of invasive bamboo that needs extra maintenance to stop it from encroaching on the reserve.

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Fearsome Four Bamboo Bash

Saturday 6th June

Written by Mark R

Our intrepid team of three GoodGymers plus our host Ian deployed into the depths of Old Sneed Park Nature Reserve in what can only be described as sub-optimal conditions, to do battle with the combined enemies of bamboo and bramble. It was quite a skirmish but Team GoodGym prevailed clearing the opposing forces from the combat zone and taking the ground. No doubt the enemy will creep back and there are other hostiles all around, so we'll need to return another day to try to retain the ground won. Well done and thank you to my brothers in arms!

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