Golf
The Greens Team l-r: Gwion Roberts, Llion Kerry, Rhys Butler, Gareth Evans, Owain Aeron and Emyr Price
The location of Royal St David’s seventy- nine hectare site requires careful management of the local ecology, with conservation high on Rhys’s list of priorities. “We’ve undertaken lots of ecological work.
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and the STRI put together a five-year Environmental Management plan for us. We are continually improving the environment with scrub management etc., trying to conserve the sandy links feel and improving all the playing surfaces.” “The aim,” says Rhys, “is to conserve and enhance the diversity of habitat types that exist by achieving and maintaining an acceptable balance between the different habitat types.” The ecological plan aims to:
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- Promote and conserve the ‘links’ landscape character via appropriate management of the fixed dune grasslands and associated habitat types
- Retain the size, health and connectivity of the different habitat types
- Manage the diverse conservation interests through a structured and phased programme of work, seeking advice in line with best practice guidance
Rhys continues; “More specifically, it will be essential that the open links character of the course is maintained, with minimal impact from natural succession, artificial inclusions or inappropriate management. The need for structural diversity (age structure) within retained stands of gorse and associated
scrub will need to be managed to the benefit of birds and other wildlife. This will also provide important visual and golfing interest.” “It will be necessary to conserve the
extent of wildflower (species rich) grasslands for their floral and bird interest. All of the above will be undertaken whilst recognising the need for bare ground and the expansion of the more localised and scarce habitat types, particularly the localised areas of heather and dune slack.” “We have developed an ongoing
programme of recording the wildlife interests, giving particular emphasis to the priority species.” Last October saw the continuation of a massively successful 2013-2014 programme,
This was a huge task and was all carried out in-house by a passionate,
determined and hard working team
Sand and heather on the 2nd
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