A team of 16 scouts from Consett supported the Woodland Trust on a cold and snowy December day at our Four Lane Ends Wood and Castle Hill Wood locations in North West Durham. Located near to the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty means that...
Drystone experience at Castle Hill Wood. 18th December 2019 was a frosty but dry day on the hilltop location overlooking the lovely Derwent Valley in County Durham. Under the guidance of Peter our trainer for the day, the Castle Hill Wood volunteers focused on the repair...
On 3 and 4 December, 70 Fever-Tree staff worked hard to plant 1,500 trees in the South Downs. The landowner, also the co-founder of Fever-Tree, recently purchased a large farming estate in the heart of the South Downs National Park, which is in our Treescape area. The South...
Hello Supers We are nearly there, not only the end of the year but also the end of the decade. What a time it’s been! The conversation around the need for trees and woodland has changed dramatically in recent years. This month alone we saw politicians make tree...
Dear Ancient Tree Inventory Team, I hope you have had another great month recording and verifying trees to the Ancient Tree Inventory and thank you very much for all of your continued efforts on the project. I wanted to send a final update for 2019 before...
Carol Evans, Woodland Trust Scotland Director, has sent this Christmas message to all volunteers in Scotland: [caption id="attachment_14951" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Scottish Tree of the Year 2019 awards, held at the Scottish Parliament December 17th 2019, For those of you who don't know her, Carol is in...
Hello Loch Arkaig ancient tree recorders! It seems like forever ago that we were scrambling across the hillside in search of Arkaig’s ancient trees. Thank you so much for all that came to help us record an impressive 80 trees, which revealed a special mix of...
Well we did not cancel the working party on the 12th this time, and the heavy rain did stop just in time, but it was still enough to deter the majority and produce our lowest ever turn out of three,( later augmented by Bev and...
Volunteers came together last week for our last volunteer task day of 2019. We visited Drumnaph Woodland in Maghera and worked within the wetland area to cut and remove willow that was starting to dry up the ground. The wetland provides such a range of...
As we hurtle towards the end of the year, it’s worth reflecting - what a year! Trees and woods have never been more recognised for the value they bring. In a year when the climate crisis is so front and centre in the news, trees,...