To start with I removed the least promising looking trees, then just continued thinning through, some of these birches are multi stemmed, and the triple trunk seen in the pic is a Rowan, I'll remove two of the trunks in time keeping the best one, and allowing that room to fill out, and develop side branches, the plan for this place is to restore back to more of a native woodland, the plot is full of Sitka spruce of which a lot have been felled and thinned out now, but this site is an ancient oak woodland. I plan to create as much variation as possible, rides, glades, scallops, wildflower meado