(12) It is now managed by Suffolk Wildlife Trust, but it has been under continuous coppice management since 1252 and you can still buy your firewood and hazel products near the entrance.(11) Since 2009, Sall has practised farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), protecting wildlings and pruning stumps that coppice so they rapidly grow or regrow into trees.(10) These sites could be linked to sustainable forestry and techniques, notably coppicing.(9) By coppicing trees, for example, they let in more light, which allows other species to thrive.(8) It involves activities such as restoring heathland, burning brash – cuttings left over from wood management – digging ditches, path widening, coppicing, scrub clearance, fence removal and pond maintenance.(7) Kevin Baskill, the interim head of Coppice primary school in Chigwell, Essex, said a substantial number of children at his school were bussed from elsewhere in the same local authority, Redbridge, because of the uneven demand for places.(6) Most indigenous trees in Africa coppice when cut, their stumps looking like tangled weeds and valueless scrub to the unknowing eye.(5) In a coppice, under conditions of low grass availability and high stocking rate (300 ewes.ha-1) the time spent eating bushes reaches 60% of grazing time and increases with flock size (stocking rates of 50 ewes.ha-1 vs 150 ewes.ha-1).(4) Who cares whether a tree is a hunched and fissured coppiced oak, worked by people for centuries, or a sapling planted beside a slip-road with a rabbit guard around it?.(3) Each coppice stool, possessing a girth that suggested medieval origin, had sent up three to five slender stems with a giant beanstalk thrust 50 or 60 feet high.(2) Set on the side of a shallow green valley of fields, coppices and orchards, Rakinice is an astonishingly beautiful spot, but you cannot eat the scenery.(1) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.(n.) A grove of small growth a thicket of brushwood a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes.The Mirage itself looms above the coppice of trees like a giant open book. “Yes, Holly says that the coppice was my grandfather’s favourite spot.” The tract thus characterised was about five or six acres in superficial extent and surrounded by the same kind of coppice that covered most of the face of the country.īruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850 This ability makes them candidates for management under a sort of ' coppice' rotation.

This grove appeared of that kind usually termed a coppice or copse - such as may be often observed in English parks. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866 The neighbourhood, however, is interesting enough on account of the curious aqueducts for supplying the town with water, and the Mercede forest which, in D'Urville's opinion, might more justly be called a coppice, for it contains nothing but shrubs and ferns.Ĭelebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. On one side of the coppice was a meadow which belonged to a fisherman named The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006 While in coppice loud shrilleth and trilleth Hazár,

noun A grove of small growth a thicket of brushwood a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber.

See copse.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun A grove of small growth a thicket of brushwood a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes.

transitive verb (Forestry) To cause to grow in the form of a coppice to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.

noun A wood or thicket formed of trees or bushes of small growth, or consisting of underwood or brushwood especially, in England, a wood cut at certain times for fuel.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

intransitive verb To grow as a coppice after cutting.

intransitive verb To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.

noun A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Coppice definition