Developing an acid lowland grassland at Bat Park, Wilderness Wood has been a challenge to encourage a unique grassland habitat in the middle of a Wealden woodland.

Leaky Dam’s are something of a speciality at Wilderness Wood, where we have built over 100 to-date. We offer visitors a Leaky Dam Trail guide. Ask at ‘The Hatch’.

Wilderness Wood is not only a wildlife habitat, but also a working woodland, much of it managed for timber production. The challenge has to be balancing these in order to enable both to flourish.

The first day of autumn shows little change after the recent summer heat, but recent rains are sure to hasten changes as winter creeps up on us.

Woodlands are dominated by trees, but how do they grow, what uses can they be put to and what interactions can we find there?

Catsear - one of the increasing number of wildflowers starting to appear at the Bat Park due to the acid lowland grassland project

A walk in the rain reveals all sorts of surprises most fair weather explorers never get to see.

Mondays bring a welcome quiet to the woods with plenty of plants to be spotted

Different habitats have to be managed in quite different ways

Ash Dieback - a natural phenomenon, or human agency?

The completed Wilderness Bridge - at the bottom of Hemlock Valley, crossing the Wilderness Stream

Bracken carnage - the pros and cons

Conservation is about methodically recording for scientific purposes, but also being rewarded with unexpected finds because of good conservation work done earlier.

Plans for the New Ponds and Boardwalk

Our monthly gathering of members to carry out conservation and other activities