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This booklet and its companion volume, Woodland rides and glades: their management for wildlife, are the first two of a series of booklets on aspects of management of various habitats for wildlife. This booklet explains why rides and glades are so important and gives guidelines on how best to manage them for nature conservation. A ride is regarded as any linear opening or track within the wood and is taken to include all the area between the trees on either side. Hence this includes the grassy surface of the ride itself, together with any ride-side ditches, and the scrub or coppice regrowth which often develops between the ditch and the trees. All these components of the ride are vitally important to wildlife in woods and taken together can support a very wide range of plants and animals. Woodland glades provide similar conditions for wildlife and are defined as all permanent non-linear areas within woods which have no or few trees. Glades are permanent features, so they do not include young plantations or clearings containing developing woodland. Our recommendations on ride and glade management apply equally to deciduous and conifer plantations and to semi-natural woods throughout Britain, unless stated otherwise.
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