Jim Low, our Kinclaven Bluebell Wood volunteer warden, guided walk leader and photographer, has sent us this photo he took last week of bluebell leaves appearing through the leaf litter already! Hopefully late frosts won't damage them too much and also that they don't flower so...
804 metres of path have been re-surfaced at our stunning Caledonian pinewood site at Carrbridge. This has all been set up and overseen by Ross Watson, our Site Manager for the north of Scotland. The 1.5 metre wide paths are surfaced with Geotex...
Campaign for massive woodland expansion Today we have launched our plan to increase tree cover across the UK and tackle the climate and nature crises. It’s called the Emergency Tree Plan and you can take action here: https://campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/54227/action/1 Here’s the background: The Committee on Climate Change states that the...
Cherry Tree planting at Hedley Hall Wood. Volunteers met on 11th January 2020 at the Hedley Hall Wood car park on the County Durham / Gateshead border to top-up some of the 50,000 trees planted over the previous winter with some cherry trees. The initial planting...
Whilst the trees in the woods appear to be standing still, waiting for spring to arrive, buried within the leaf litter one of our most iconic native mammals has also put its life on hold, until spring arrives. The size of a thumb, our native hazel...
The autumn 2019 issue of Wood Wise dispels any myths about deadwood and raises awareness of its importance to people and wildlife. Learn more about the ecology of wood decomposition – one of nature’s essential recycling processes – and the importance of wood for river health. We also...
We bought the Hucking Estate in 1997 and began our ground-breaking restoration project. Twenty years later the people of Kent and beyond rallied in their thousands to donate to our urgent appeal to bring a slice of disused farmland next to Hucking safely into our...
Come and record some of the big, old trees at Glamis with us to celebrate National Volunteers' Week. This will be the 4th year running that we have recorded trees in the 1st week in June, but previous years have been at Drummond Castle near Comrie. Only...
It’s a new year, with new plans and resolutions, the time of year where we think about changes we can make to ensure this year is the best one yet. Holly and ivy, evergreen plants, are symbols of new life, said by some to offer...
Volunteers at Hucking Estate found this interesting spectacle in the site community orchard last week - we believe it could be Trentepohlia sp. (an algae rather than lichen, but has a symbiotic relationship with lichen) which is more commonplace on ash bark and other trees. ...