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Throughout the Project a series of technical notes will be produced on a range of management issues from sympathetic weed control and rabbit control, to cattle handling facilities and cattle management.

• Defra advice on managing rabbit populations, including a summary of the relevant legal considerations, cage trapping and rabbit-proof fencing, is available at www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/vertebrates/rabbit.htm 

• The Herbicide Handbook: Guidance on Use of Herbicides on Nature Conservation Sites. Available at: http://www.englishnature.org.uk/pubs/Handbooks/images/HERB1-4.pdf
• Soil Association, organic weed control - Weed and Scrub Control on Organic Grassland (Soil Association technical guides)
• Brown, R & Robinson, R (1997). Bracken management handbook: integrated bracken management. A guide to best practice.  Rhone-Poulenc, Ongar, Essex.
• Defra (2001).  Agronomy Note: Thistles.  Note No. 1.
• Defra (2001).  Agronomy Note: Nettles.  Note No. 2.
• Defra (2001).  Agronomy Note: Ragwort.  Note No. 3.
• Defra (2001).  Agronomy Note: Docks.  Note No. 4.
• Dixon, F L & Clay, D V (2001). Effect of synthetic and natural-product herbicides on Senecio jacobea (common ragwort).  BCPC Weeds 2001(2), pp 721-726.
• DoE (1991).  The use of herbicides in non-agricultural situations in England and Wales.  Report for the Department of the Environment (FR/D 002).  Foundation for Water Research, Marlow.
• Embetec (1990).  Bracken Pteridium aquilinum: problems and control.  Rhone-Poulenc.
• English Nature (2003). Information note: Common ragwort Senecio jacobea - towards a ragwort management strategy. English Nature, Peterborough.
• Hawkings-Byass, N (1999). Aerial bracken control: a flying solution. Enact 7(2), pp 14-17.
• Le Duc, M G; Marrs, R H & Pakeman, R J (2000).  The success of techniques for bracken control compared over several years and between experimental sites.  Aspects of Applied Biology 58, pp 129-136.
• Lewis, N et al. Bracken breaking - a bruising battle.  Enact 5(3), pp 19-22.  English Nature, Peterborough.
• Lowday, J E (1984). The effects of cutting and asulam on the frond and rhizome characteristics of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum L Kuhn). Aspects of Applied Biology 5, pp 275-282.
• Lowday, J E (1984). The restoration of heathland vegetation after control of dense bracken by asulam. Aspects of Applied Biology 5, pp 283-290.
• Pakeman, R J; Le Duc, M G & Marrs, R H (1998). An assessment of aerially applied asulam as a method of long-term bracken control.  Journal of Environmental Management 53, pp 255-262.
• Pollak, R & Bailey, A D (2001).  Grasping the thistle - an integrated strategy for control of Cirsium arvense.  BCPC Weeds 2001(1), pp 231-236.
• Simpson, N A (1993).  A summary review of information on the autecology and control of six grassland weed species.  English Nature Research Report 44.  English Nature, Peterborough.