brushdale brochure - brushdale habitat management

Providers of quality cost-effective ecological contracting nationwide

Aquatic Planting

Artificial Badger Sett Construction

Badger Fencing

Badger Sett Closure (and gates)

Bird Netting and Screening

Destructive Search

Flora Translocation

Great Crested Newt Fencing

Habitat Enhancement and Management

Hedgerow Clearance and Planting

Hedgerow Translocation

Hibernacula and Refugia Creation

Pond Creation, Lining, Draining and De-silting

Reptile Fencing

Scrub Removal and Disposal

Sensitive Vegetation Clearance

Silt Fencing

Stock Fencing

Tree Felling and Pollarding

Tree Protection Fencing

Vegetation Manipulation and Management

Water Vole Fencing

Wildflower and Grass Seeding

Woodland Management

Services

Brushdale is a ‘one-stop shop’ serving the needs of Ecologists and Project Managers seeking a wide range of ecological mitigation across all of the UK.

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Habitat Creation and Management

Brushdale has created a wide

range of habitat to compensate

when habitat is lost or to increase

the habitat available to protected

species as part of an ecological

mitigation plan.

Contact us for advice or to share ecological plans for us to provide a free quotation.

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• Complete and bespoke Receptor Sites created.

• Thinning out of existing habitat to create areas which benefit from increased natural light.

• Specialised seeding for receptor areas or pond margins and the creation of meadow or particular habitat as outlined in ecological plans.

• Trees, shrubs, hedges and other plants supplied and professionally planted.

• Cost-effective maintenance plans ensuring habitat does not deteriorate or become overgrown.

• Mowing of habitat to meet management plans.

• Tree felling/pruning and pollarding.

• Clearance of vegetation in ecologically sensitive areas eg Dormouse hedgerows.

• Pond and stream de-silting and management.

• Aquatic planting and ongoing management.

• Supply and installation of Post and Rail/Wire Fence and Tree Protection Fence/Guards.

• Construction of Otter Holts.

• Wildlife Tunnels.

• Translocation of turf and plants.

• Construction of hibernacula, log piles, compost piles, Devon hedge banks and other such features.

• Supply and installation of bird and bat boxes.

• Supply and installation of bird netting on trees, hedges and other structures.

• Marram and Grass translocation.

Our Habitat Creation and Management services are often aligned to the creation of wildlife ponds.


Badger Mitigation and Compensation

The Badger is an iconic species

in Britain and Brushdale is a

leading supplier of Exclusion

and Compensation measures.

Contact us for advice or to share ecological plans for us to provide a free quotation.



Our services also include:

• Ground protection to facilitate exclusion.

• Supply and installation of one-way gates to enable the monitored closure of setts.

• Badger proof boundary fencing.

• Creation of artificial Setts to existing and custom designs.

• Destructive search of Setts following exclusion and closure.

We have proven practical experience of delivering exclusion and the subsequent closure of setts - our services have been acknowledged as exceptional by Natural England.

We can deliver the creation of artificial Setts to existing or custom-made designs. Our installations are practical and can be tailored to suit each site.


Wildlife Ponds and Wetlands

Brushdale specialises in creating

ponds and surrounding wetland

habitat, especially for the benefit

of great crested newts. Ponds

of any size can be created with

depths and contours to comply

with specifications written as part

of licensed newt translocation work.



Our services also include:

• Lining of ponds where ground conditions do not guarantee water retention.

• Import of water for ponds when time cannot allow for natural filling.

• Supply and planting of a wide range of high quality aquatic plants suitable for great crested newts.

• Rapid planting of ponds using coir matting embedded with established plants.

• Supply and installation of safety signage and equipment.

• Creation of shallow scrapes to extend the wetland habitat.

• Creation of bunds and mounds, planted (as required) with appropriate plant species.

• Creation of Hibernacula and other refugia nearby.

• Seeding of pond margins/surrounds.

• Artificial egg laying strips.


Wildlife Fencing Services

Brushdale is one of the UK’s

leading installers of wildlife

fencing for great crested newts,

Reptiles (such as Slow Worms),

Badger, Water Vole and Otter.

We supply and install a range

of fence materials to comply

with the specification laid down

by your ecologist whilst sensitive

to budget constraints.



Our experienced and well trained

teams have in depth knowledge

of ecological fencing projects

having carried out hundreds of

installations nationwide. All staff

hold CSCS qualification and have

safely undertaken a wide range

of complex projects including

construction sites, military bases,

working quarries and power stations.

Brushdale recognises the need for

fence to be installed at short notice

to allow trapping and translocation

to commence with minimum

delay. With a reputation for starting

works on time, quality of work and

completion often ahead of time,

demand for our services is high.

Contact us as soon as you can to

obtain a free quotation and discuss

your needs.

Our fencing services also include:

• Supply and install of pitfall traps and refugia such as carpet tiles/tins.

• Design and installation of road grids to prevent access by protected species, such as newts, whilst allowing construction site traffic to proceed.

• Design and installation of pedestrian and vehicle gates preventing protected species re-entering sites previously trapped out.

• Associated work required at the same time as translocation, such as the creation of hibernacula and other refugia (including log piles).


Site Clearance Services (Ecology)

Brushdale has many years of

experience clearing sites in advance

of ecological works taking place.

We have total comprehension of how

to approach the sensitive clearance

of trees, hedge and other vegetation

such as bramble. We are trusted to

undertake contracts using hand tools

as well as more mechanised methods

of clearing.



Our services include:

• Chipping/mulching and disposal of arisings.

• Mechanised Vegetation Removal.

• Tree felling, pollarding and other arboriculture works.

• Sensitive vegetation clearance.

• Draining, de-silting and destruction of water bodies.

• Destructive search/strip of land by excavator following translocation of protected species.

• Supply and installation of Tree Protection Fence.

• Supply and installation of bird netting on trees, hedges and other structures.

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