The Woodland Trust is leading a programme across the UK to restore ancient woodlands. There are very few areas where original ancient woodland remains undisturbed, but many where remnants of ancient woodland remain, or where plantations have been developed to replace original woodland. The Bosahan Woods, being formerly planted out as a beech plantation in Victorian times, would fall into this later category. In such areas the Woodland Trust recommends that an assessment is made regarding the survival of ancient woodland characteristics. On behalf of the Woodland Trust, Nick Jarvis of Working Woodlands Cornwall CIC made an assessment of the Bosahan Woods and issued a report in August 2024. This identifies the important features of the woods and the range of threats they face, coupled with some proposed prescriptive actions. One of these modifies the actions proposed in the woodland management plan for the hazel area near the quarry. Rather than introduce a regular coppicing programme, it proposes thinning by small group selection, with hazel stems felled with pleaching cuts (as in hedge laying) to promote new growth as ‘phoenix trees’.