

Plate 10. Slashings bring summer food cover to woodland areas. A (Upper). 

 Newly cut subtype is characterized by rank herbaceous growth and briars, lasts 

 from three to ten years usually. B (Lower). Old cuttings have a stand of shrubs 

 and sapling trees, but with fewer herbs and briars. It will soon become a pole- 

 stage woodland, and will then have a very different value as cover for grouse. 



