Here at Yarner Wood we are treated to a wonderful array of habitats for plant and animal species. Visitors come from far and wide to observe breeding migratory birds like the pied flycatcher. Lichenologists can be fascinated for hours by the specimens growing thick on...
Hello, everyone! By the time you read this, you will either be hurtling towards a festive break or we will have welcomed in a brand New Year! However you spend the season, I hope it is really enjoyable for you. I just wanted to introduce myself...
Judy Dowling is, as always on a mission! She is passionate about trees and her latest spin off from her role as Lead Ancient Tree Verifier for Scotland has been to collect acorns from the ancient Cadzow oaks on Chatelherault Country Park near Glasgow, and...
Sunday 16th December was a day to visit this beautiful Woodland Trust site near Loch Leven in Fife, to choose your free takeaway Christmas tree! This popular event has been running for many years. The recipe is that you turn up, choose a tree, cut it down and take it...
Last week a group of Woodland Trust volunteers joined forces with The Conservation Volunteers to cut willow pegs and plant them along the Glenedra River. We braved the blustery weather for a mornings planting on mostly stoney ground, it was a hard mornings work but it plays...
Northern Ireland volunteers came together on the 8th December to enjoy an early Christmas get-together. We welcomed 26 festive volunteers to join us for a walk in Oakfield Glen & Bashfordsland Wood where we foraged for holly, ivy, berries and twigs before making our way...
Jeremy Evans One of the South West’s Outreach advisors has been working with Wiltshire County Council to support their ambitious planting project to plant 10,000 trees in memory of the men and women who died in the First World War The council worked with 109 Community...
Huge congratulations to all the volunteers and to site manager Jill Aitken after a phenomenal planting week at Kinclaven Bluebell Wood in Perthshire. The Trust bought this stunning oak wood in 2017, along with some adjacent fields, many of which had previously been under woodland...
Volunteers from our northern region have joined us over two weekends in the last month, attending our introduction to coppice management course, run at Lymm in Cheshire at our Spud Wood site, and at Whittle Dene Woods, near Gateshead. Volunteers were joined by tutor Don...
We are delighted to announce that work has started last week on Pestfurlong Moss (part of Gorse Covert Mounds at Birchwood near Warrington) to restore the peat mossland. Work has been undertaken to install a series of plastic piling dams at key locations to re-wet this...