Fantastic news – it’s crazy how barren vast swathes of the country are because the ancient forest got cleared to make room for agriculture since the Bronze Age. Hope that this project goes well and supports increased biodiversity
We need to end upland farming in this country and plant trees.
Yorkshire Dales really needs stuff like this, there aren’t many large areas of woodland and the ones that do exist are all pretty much sitka spruce monocultures which are pretty terrible for wildlife. Been up to Snaizeholme to see the red squirrels a few times so this is great to see.
This is great news.
Stupid question but, what kind of timeframe would this be an actual woodland recognisable by the human eye? 10 years?
I just hope they’re doing this properly.
Something that goes perhaps under reported is just how badly a lot of these projects are executed, my local council has done a few tree planting projects and 80-90% of what was planted is dead. Council doesn’t give a shit because they planted 10,000 trees or whatever so they look good.
Trees need to be planted properly at the right time of year and appropriately guarded.
Good, the farming there is basically non existent and the farmers are effectively farming whats left of the EU/government subsidies. About time something was done with that barren land
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Fantastic news – it’s crazy how barren vast swathes of the country are because the ancient forest got cleared to make room for agriculture since the Bronze Age. Hope that this project goes well and supports increased biodiversity
We need to end upland farming in this country and plant trees.
Yorkshire Dales really needs stuff like this, there aren’t many large areas of woodland and the ones that do exist are all pretty much sitka spruce monocultures which are pretty terrible for wildlife. Been up to Snaizeholme to see the red squirrels a few times so this is great to see.
This is great news.
Stupid question but, what kind of timeframe would this be an actual woodland recognisable by the human eye? 10 years?
I just hope they’re doing this properly.
Something that goes perhaps under reported is just how badly a lot of these projects are executed, my local council has done a few tree planting projects and 80-90% of what was planted is dead. Council doesn’t give a shit because they planted 10,000 trees or whatever so they look good.
Trees need to be planted properly at the right time of year and appropriately guarded.
Good, the farming there is basically non existent and the farmers are effectively farming whats left of the EU/government subsidies. About time something was done with that barren land