Despite recent heavy rain and windy weather, volunteers from Butcher’s Wood have continued their coppicing work this winter to help improve the woodland ecology at the site. Butchers Wood is a small (7.12ha) ancient semi-natural woodland at the northern boundary of the South Downs National Park...
[caption id="attachment_16129" align="alignleft" width="225"] Simon and Tish with their farewell cakes[/caption] Volunteers from Langley Vale Wood bid farewell to site manager Simon Bateman-Brown on Thursday 20 February, as he leaves the Woodland Trust for pastures new at Kent Wildlife Trust. Simon has been with the Trust since...
The hardworking volunteers from the Spud Wood woodland working group have been busy throughout the winter months coppicing hazel and laying an old thorn hedge that runs through the site. A dedicated band of them, led by volunteer leader Nick Storer, have been working most...
Thanks to all of our Nidd Gorge practical volunteers who braved the weather last week to help undertake footpath improvements at the site. The group, led by Sam Walker from Harrogate Borough Council, managed to dodge the worst of the weather. However it was muddy...
The Smithills team wanted to say a big thank you to Ruth Hyde who has made the first donations to our Smithills Community Kit Library, donating countless jumpers, wellies and other bits of kit. Part of our Lottery funding includes commitments to work with community...
Volunteers from our Langton Wood practical group have been busy undertaking some fantastic work on the site over the winter months. They have been thinning out ash regeneration which is badly affected by ash dieback to create spaces to replant with a variety of species...
Are you keen to plant trees and hedges in your garden or on your land? Do you want to see wildlife flourishing from your window? If you do, you can get started with a Woodland Trust tree pack. If you thought your garden was too small...
Frogspawn in Fingle woods is another signal that winter is drawing to an end. But, is it early and what will happen when, or if, there is a cold snap? Data from Nature’s Calendar (a citizen science project run by the Woodland Trust and the UK...
Is the largest living organism on Earth a tree? [caption id="attachment_16035" align="aligncenter" width="253"] Quaking aspen, Logan Fisher, Pexels[/caption] It might be! In the Fishlake National Park, Utah, USA, there is a forest of approximately 47,000 quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). These trees are not, however, separate organisms; they are...
[from Broadleaf Magazine, Autumn 2019] Thinking Big by Vincent Crump Since 2015, the Trust has spent £15 million on new sanctuaries for nature. Vincent Crump visits Ausewell Wood on Dartmoor, on of the Trust's big target acquisitions, to talk to Woodland Trust custodian David Rickwood about how transformative...