Trading Skills in Countryside Management

Countryside Management students have teamed up with students studying outdoor education at Moulton College, Outdoor education students have been able to teach countryside students how to kayak and rock climb and in return countryside management students have taught the outdoor education students to clay pigeon shoot and given them an introduction to bushcraft which included coppicing willow with billhooks and bow saws, making a bench from the coppiced willow and lighting a fire without matches. These swaps have allowed both groups of students to gain valuable experience of teaching and instructing each, skills which will be important in their future careers! 

ACME Pheasant Traps

Countryside management students have been using some of the willow they have been coppicing over the past few weeks to create some pheasant traps!

In the new year students will use modern alternatives to these old fashioned traps (which would have been used extensively by gamekeepers in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries) to catch wild pheasants which will then be kept as 'laying stock' to provide eggs for incubation and hatching to give students experience of rearing game birds in preparation for a career in the game management industries.