Tens of thousands of tree saplings killed by drought in England

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1. Some of England’s most ambitious tree planting schemes have been savaged by drought conditions, with hundreds of thousands of saplings dying, figures obtained by The Times show.

   One of the worst-hit schemes — the Dorn and Glyme Valley Woodland in the Cotswolds — involved 189,505 trees planted across nearly 100 hectares. More than 40% have failed, with drought cited as the primary cause.

   That means almost 78,000 trees died before they could establish, in a project that was meant to be a flagship for England’s green recovery

2. I wonder if they pave the way with fungi and prep the soil ahead of time to give them the best start. Obviously droughts don’t help!!

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