A 10 year plan of action for an award-winning country park is well underway.
The management plan for Worcestershire County Council’s Waseley Hills Country Park was approved at the end of 2012 and began in January.
The site is to be managed in a way that will conserve and enhance its biodiversity as well provide high quality visitor facilities, including improving and maintaining grassland, woodlands and historic features of the park.
Working with Natural England, already a fence has been installed at the park designed to reinstate the historic field boundaries and protect the hedge banks.
The work has been designed to ensure there is a tighter control over the Aberdeen Angus cattle grazing, using lower stock numbers to graze certain areas of grassland at certain times of the year.
Stopping the cattle from roaming freely on the park benefits wild flowers and ground nesting birds.
George Hammonds, countryside sites officer, said: "Reinstating the old field boundaries will protect some of the historic hedge banks as well as allowing visitors to enjoy cattle free areas all year round."
For more details visit worcestershire.gov.uk/countryside.
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