For a number of years The Woodland Trust has been working in partnership with Yorkshire Water and the National Trust to develop proposals for woodland creation on land owned by the partners across West Yorkshire under the auspices of The White Rose Forest’s Landscapes for...
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...
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...
Is your first aid kit ready to go? If your volunteer group is heading out to the woods today and you're in charge of first aid, it might be time to give your first aid kit a bit of a once-over. Do you need to top anything...
[caption id="attachment_7067" align="aligncenter" width="335"] Fly Agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria) fruiting body under a birch (Betula) tree. Powys, Wales. October.[/caption] [from Broadleaf Magazine, Autumn 2019] What Lies Beneath by Fiona Collins A dark web lurks under the woodland floor – and we can’t survive without it. Fiona Collins talks with Prof. Lynne...
[from Broadleaf Magazine, Summer 2019] This room plants trees by Vincent Crump The Woodland Trust has planted nine million trees, thanks to the growing band of green-minded companies that support us. So who are we working with? What do you have in your house that has got more trees planted? ...
Plan Bee [from Broadleaf Magazine, Summer 2019] by Fiona Collins With our pollinators under pressure, woods and trees now play a crucial role. Fiona Collins talks to Bex Cartwright of the Bee Conservation Trust about bees and and restoring ecosystems for a brighter bee future. ...
[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...