Thegorseand the scrub are not just seen as an impediment to grazing but welcomed as attributes of the common.
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They vary from heather moorland to agrostis pastures invaded bygorseand bracken.
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There were also less planned checks on the scrub succession sincegorsefires were a regular occurrence in the 1970s.
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Only sheep, goats, donkeys and geese may be grazed and only furze (gorse) or fern may be removed from the common.
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Where a quadrat landed on a latrine (see below) or an area of scrub (gorseor rushes), bare rock or standing water, it was ignored and another thrown.
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Routine annual management has been carried out to try to suppress bracken colonisation,9 as well as periodic attempts to clear extensive areas ofgorseand scrub.
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Grassland communities predominated but the different tone and texture in the central portion of the common suggests bracken andgorsecolonisation.
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But it will go back to what it was before—gorse, fern and brambles—and it is that which makes this problem so urgent.
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There is an area of some 80 acres which has been overgrown withgorseand bracken ever since the days of the agricultural depression.
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I do not think that there is very much beauty in a lot ofgorseand broken fences.
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I know of a case of a common infested withgorseand bracken where there is a proposal to start a public golf course.
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We find vast areas of land covered not by cattle, sheep or grouse moors but by nothing but scree, bracken orgorse.
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First, we refer to pasture land on which the vegetation is solely or mainly bracken,gorse, heather rushes and sedge.
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The eradication of bracken, whins orgorsegrowing on a pastoral farm at the commencement of a tenancy.
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He was sent out with a small hand hatchet to gather a little fern andgorseto put under the stacks.
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