Can we take sticks and branches for personal use?

If you are just taking a few, then that is fine.  We’d rather people didn’t take masses or be a regular place for picking up things like kindling – but because with the number of log burners in the area, we think the woodland floor could be stripped bare if everyone did it.  Having branches, twigs and leaf litter on the woodland floor is all part of our recycling ecosystem for the trees and the wildlife that live there.  Please don’t take any logs from the woodland.  We put any surplus log sized wood on the car park at Lightwoods Hill then people know it is surplus and can be taken.  This stops people just taking what they feel like from wherever!