Woodland Working Group at Canal Wood, Newry were able to dodge the bad weather at the weekend to make it out on site for a task day. Joining the group for the first time yesterday was new volunteer Katherine. Long standing group member Bruce helped Katherine...
Yesterday, as part of a three day regional gathering, RSPB offered their help to carry out some work in the Woodland Trust’s Glencharnoch Wood in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park. Over the course of the afternoon, 46 staff helped recreate open water...
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...
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...
January is normally a quite month for most people. Post-Christmas, the short days and inclement weather tend to mean hunkering down until spring has truly sprung, which usually doesn’t happen until well into March, especially on Dartmoor! However, if you are a National Trust Volunteer...
The Woodland Trust is one of the UK’s leading conservation charities. We have over 500,000 members and supporters and more than 1,000 sites all over the UK. We believe life’s better with trees. We protect and campaign on behalf of the UK’s woods, plant more...