This page will be used to add relevant research & information documents.  Suggestions for documents to include will be welcome.

Horse Drawn Bracken Bruising.  The control options for bracken are many and varied.  A horse-drawn bracken bruiser can be seen in action in the top photo in the margin but see the Heavy Horses website for further information.

Tick bites and Lyme disease.  See the factsheet and best practice guide for forest users issued by the Royal Forestry Society.  The relevance to bracken is the strong association between bracken litter and high sheep tick densities - the litter provides an ideal habitat for ticks.

Monsanto guide to the use of RoundUp.  Guidance produced by Monsanto about how RoundUp can be used for bracken control. The information is also available from the Monsanto website.  

LERAP = Local Environment Risk for Pesticides.  Certain pesticides have an aquatic buffer zone requirement when applied by horizontal boom or broadcast air-assisted sprayers. To reduce this aquatic buffer zone, there is a legal obligation to carry out and record a Local Environment Risk Assessment for Pesticides.

Bracken for Butterflies.  Guidance produced by Butterfly Conservation.