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Interesting, thank you and to everyone else who has replied. It seems it's a more complicated topic than I thought. I'll do a few little experiments now and then continue next year depending on how that goes. We have a small hazel coppice in another area with young-ish hazel I think is ready...

It's been planted specifically as a productive coppice for fire wood, the whole coppice is mixed wood including some birch. I don't want to leave it because it's surrounded by mature woodland and I'd like to maintain a variety of habitats for wildlife. I guess it sounds like if it's not...

This is very interesting. I know if you pollard a tall mature tree, cutting back branches, it will regrow with extreme vigour. It's interesting to hear this isn't the case if cut off at the base. I'm about to start coppicing some lovely birches about 12 years old and I am nervous about messing...

Hello everyone! Excited to join the community :) We recently took on a small plot of land which has a woodland (just under and acre) planted up about 12 years ago. It has never been coppiced and it feels that now is a good time to start coppicing some areas. I was advised by an experienced...