What a pleasant surprise to find I'd been out and about volunteering in the Woodland Trust Scotland Glen Finglas estate for ten years! I’ve spent lots of days at the site doing conservation work and meeting people and sometimes both - and still do. Compared...
Members of Grappenhall Woods Woodland Working group were delighted to finally be back out enjoying the woods again last Sunday. After so many months of absence it was fantastic to be out on the site, in a COVID safe way enjoying the outdoors and the beautiful...
We are excited to be getting going again, covid allowing. A few of us will be back in the woods this April – socially distanced of course - and a little recce this weekend saw Old Wood, Skellingthorpe, looking divine with a carpet of wood...
Sunday was the first return of our volunteer team to Old Wood, Skellingthorpe, since the pandemic arrived, made possible by the hard work put in by Claire Green, James Jesson, Nick Hall and all the team at Grantham HQ. With the extra PPE gear, a covid-safe...
Back in the 1980’s Storeton Woods in Bebington near Liverpool on the Wirral was used for motorbike scrambling and hosting “war games” with permission of the previous owner of the woods who charged for these activities. This constant noise, pollution, disturbance and damage to the...
It would have been even better if it was still called Ballathie Bluebell Wood, in which case I could have announced the septuple Ballathie Bluebell Wood Balsam bashing BBQ! Earlier in August 20 or so volunteers from the Kinclaven Bluebell Wood Woodland Working Group gathered together...
The Kinclaven Bluebell Wood Woodland Working Group were back in action last weekend with a session to secure trees and their tubes planted last autumn, and to remove sitka, beech and larch regeneration within the existing woodland. Some of the tubes had gone decidedly wonky, and...
Over the last couple of months a team of volunteers from Glen Finglas' Woodland Working Group and the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park have turned out to tidy up an area through which the long-distance Great Trossachs Path passes. Originally the land had been a...
Our practical group at Nidd gorge have got off to a flying start this new year. Led in partnership with Harrogate Borough Council by Countryside Ranger, Sam walker, the first task of the New Year was really well attended. With two main tasks for the day the...
Thanks to everyone who came along on our practical work day at Castle Hills, Castleside, near Consett last week for a lovely day of hazel coppicing. Working in the central area of the site, volunteers worked hard coppicing and creating deer protection 'cylinders' made up from...