[from Broadleaf magazine, Summer 2019] OLD GLORIES Fat-bellied oaks, spidery yews and spooky hangman’s beeches. Britain’s store of special trees is second to none, and the Trust is out to save them. by Kit Buchan In 2011, a healthy 900-year-old yew beside the church in the village of Ashford...
Broadleaf Magazine Many of you brilliant volunteers will be missing your quarterly fix of the Broadleaf magazine, so from now on you can read some of its articles in pdf format on Whittle. The first few posts will be a catch-up from the summer, autumn and winter 2019...
A new woodland working group in the Avon Valley Woods near Loddiswell in South Devon, has recruited 20 new volunteers in it's first two months. Avon Valley Woods are the birthplace of the Woodland Trust. A mix of ancient woods clinging to the steep sided valley of...
For most of its journey through Fingle Woods, the River Teign flows from west to east at the bottom of a steep-sided valley which rises more then 150m above the water. For several weeks either side of the Winter Solstice the sun barely climbs high...
If you'd like to brush up upon or learn new tree identification skills then this event is for you. We'll look at our Scottish native trees and also some of our non-native conifers. As an example, you'll learn how to distinguish between sessile and pedunculate...
Introducing our brand new staff member for the central region woodland operations team: Jess Vagg! In her role as Visitor Experience Officer at Tring Park, Jess will be will be focussing on the ways visitors are welcomed to Tring. She’ll be organising events, maintaining Tring Parks...
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...