More than just a boundary!

For National Hedgerow week, we went to look at a hedge at Low Bridge End Farm (St. John's in the Vale) that has expanded into a thriving patch of land producing fruit,

Are you involved in designing woodland creation or woodland management plans?

Cumbria Woodlands is offering this FREE, 1-day "Landscape and Woodland Design Workshop" delivered by Robin Gray, the

How do you give your trees and woodland the best start in life?

Lochlan talks us through beating up, what it involves and why it is so important.

Want to know more about Woodland Creation? Take a

Join us on Saturday the 13th of May at Sizergh along with the Ancient Tree Forum as we take a walk around the estate and investigate its incredible trees.

The Sizergh Estate has been home to the

Our Ancient Woodland Restoration course has evolved over three versions and is now live and ready to enrol.

This course is for anyone interested in ancient woodlands and is FREE and available right NOW. You can enrol by following this LINK

Over 6 modules we cover-

• Key features and management
• Survey and planning
• Halting further decline
• Recovery of the wider ecosystem
• Maximising ecological integrity
• Management approaches and opportunities.

https://lms.cumbriawoodlands.co.uk/

It's time to get to know another member of our team! This time we introduce Gary, our Woodland Creation Forester for the Community Forest Project.

So why trees?

We have a great opportunity as

On Friday (17 March) the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) picked up their shovels and hosted their first staff tree-planting event in partnership with Cumbria

Tree planting doesn't have to be complicated! Slit-cut? T-cut? Digging a pit? Graham, who has planted more trees than he can remember talks us through three options for planting.

Want to know more

Earlier this month the Community Forest team headed to Whitehaven for a planting day at Hensingham. Together with the local school, residents and volunteers, hundreds of trees were planted at Rosebank

Want to know more about Deer and Squirrel management?

The Forestry Commission is running a free training day at Carnforth aimed at all those involved with woodland and deer management and recommended

So much has happened at Thirlmere over the last 12 months thanks to Bryce's hard work. The Lake District Foundation caught up with Bryce recently to hear more about the project and his time spent

The research, working with National Highways and Lancaster University will focus on woodland coppicing and whether it can be an effective technique to manage air quality impacts from roads, and will