At the start of autumn, the Fingle Woods partnership held an open day of hands-on family-friendly woodland exploration. Nearly 170 people from the local community and further afield braved a typical Dartmoor mixed weather forecast, and ventured to the Wooston Castle area of Fingle Woods...
Hello all A slightly lengthier update – lots of exciting stuff coming up! Tree planting time! First of all… next month is tree planting time! It seems not that long ago that we were all out in the hail planting trees at Walker Fold. We planted over 6000...
On a perfect autumn day in the Nidd Gorge we had the first of our two October sessions. Parking by Burgess Bridge on the Scotton side of the wood we all lugged and barrowed the tools and the materials through the mud and water to...
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award participant Patrick and his dad got to work with routine thinning in Canal Wood using a Canadian cross cut saw. Apart from being a very efficient piece of kit (no fuel required, other than tea and wheaten bread!) the soothing zing...
Many thanks to Daniela, Stephen, Mark, Phil and Natasha for coming out coppicing at our Gorse Covert Mounds site last weekend. It was a brave decision to come out given the weather, but the rain held off mostly and it was really quite pleasant for...
The Woodland Trust has launched The Big Climate Fightback – an engagement campaign to inspire 1 million people to pledge to plant a tree on 30 November as part of a UK-wide day of mass tree planting. It is a call to action in response...
The second year of the second phase of Observatree has just finished (Observatree years run from September- September). The volunteers have once again all been hard at working looking for signs of pests and diseases and reporting any potential cases back to the tree health...
Discover the ancient trees of Loch Arkaig Pine Forest Sun 10 Nov 2019 Join staff and volunteers from around Scotland on Sun 10 Nov 2019 from 10am to 4pm to find and record some of Scotland’s most interesting Caledonian pine trees at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest,...
This month it is my pleasure to welcome the Threat Detectors to our midst as we have now said our goodbyes to Sarah Cooley, our Threat Detector Volunteer Network Manager. We're really excited for her as she embarks on her next big adventure but will...
Each month there are stories and new developments to report at Langley Vale Wood, the largest of our four First World War Centenary Woods in Surrey, and September was no exception. Planning consent was obtained for the visitor car park, walking trails and memorial sculpture...