Worlebury Woods Six Months Before & After --August 2022-The Year of the Tree and March 2023 Death
Channel: semw52
Date: 2023-03-10

I have been reflecting , recording and observing the wood for a good 15 years and also showing its evolution in all seasons and weathers----Getting to know many trees even naming them like 'Old Grey Beard'  and the Spirit trees, the old Yews.......A place of peace where many walkers often come with their dogs and families to experience the beauty of the magnificent trees, following little pathways as they weave throughout the wood...A place full of history and mystery--magical .Some areas are like cathedrals with the trees the tall pillars to the sky--Trees the majestic power houses of photosynthesis with canopies of leaves the factories that produce the food and energy using the Sun etc...Magnificent  Earthlings studied by  the experts and their networking abilities--Yes the Trees throughout this Wood are aware of the destruction going on here---TREES Powerhouses but Powerless ...
This video just a very brief window showing how quickly a place of beauty and peace can end up like a WWI battleground--The work to clear the wood has been going on for  several years--at first subtly clipping  and pruning back and then more intense clearing--chopping , raking and hacking and then the heavy artillery arriving--chain-saws, and shredders with barriers erected as they carry out the work of felling trees like 'Old Grey Beard'...the sound of their work resounding  all around as the trees in silence fall like giants to the precious Earth below--the Earth  that fed them from their early lives--such  precious trees......WSM is wounded--its precious wood under serious threat by a few ...