Gorpley Reservoir woodland creation project - Planting the Northern Forest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ธ.ค. 2020
- We're working in partnership with Yorkshire Water and the National Trust as part of a pilot project for the White Rose Forest’s Landscapes for Water programme. 100,000 trees have been planted at the Gorpley Reservoir in West Yorkshire, creating 63.2 hectares of community woodland. We're excited to start bringing the White Rose Forest and wider Northern Forest to life.
The tree planting is part of a wider habitat improvement scheme, covering 104 hectares in total. The scheme will also see moorland restoration, Natural Flood Management which will include turf/willow dams, peat bog/heathland habitat restoration, and pond formation.
We're working with specialists to help us design the scheme, as well as local community groups. If you'd like to get involved in the Northern Forest and plant on your land, visit thenorthernforest.org.uk/
A big thank you to our funders as well.
Funding includes DEFRA Countryside Stewardship £470,524 and additional support from Yorkshire Water and the National Trust. The Natural Flood Management interventions were paid through a grant from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority - Local Growth Fund, totalling £440,000.
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Good job. I loved it.
Just hope I live long enough to see tree growth there.
OMG! Such a vast, vast area and sooo barren and empty! Not a single tree to be seen anywhere! But soooo much work has been done! So many trees planted! Well done! I can already imagine forests there and life....please keep us updated how it is all growing...
Thank you to all involved.
Lovely scenery, amazing video, thank you.
I dreamt that Birmingham was razed to the ground and turned back into a forest.
add skelmersdale to the list of towns/cities to be reverted back to beautiful forest.
AND how about beavers??? Best waterways engineers on this planet!! Did you introduce any to that project?..?...maybe it is too barren for them in there atm?..?...
If only those neighboring moors owned by the Bannister empire were to be given the same treatment, not a cat in hells chance when all they think about is profits from grouse shooting and are allowed to let the moors die
I hope their Oak they're planting.
Where is the woodland trust's grey squirrel control programme?
3 years on…what’s the condition of this place? Any photos/videos?
Is there a way to go work there in the planting?
Beautiful. Well done to all involved in this project. I think everyone would like to see a return of mixed deciduous forests. It seems like a very exposed and peaty location, so you're probably quite restricted in what you can plant (at least initially), but if the conditions allow, please plant some GIANTS, like Sequoia sempervirens and Taxodium distichum. And, imo, forget about using solely native trees. Use suitable trees from throughout the temperate world.
It would be great if you made a .pdf showing other nations the steps involved in transitioning land from blanket bogs, to pioneer species, to water & pH management, through to mature forests. There are many blanket bogs in Ireland, similar to this habitat, which should be converted to deciduous woodland. If Coillte in Ireland ever reads this, please note; 'DECIDUOUS' was mentioned twice.
No native trees are the best and should be used only. Non native species can cause problems
Just seen Nigel Farage show the Woodland Trust for what they really are. Health and Safety my ass!
Hello, we are not felling any healthy trees. The works being carried out at Blackbush and Twenty Acre Shaw are to manage the impact of ash dieback disease. We are legally obliged to ensure trees on our estate are safe and do not pose a hazard to visitors. Felling has concentrated on affected trees adjacent to paths, public rights of way and roads. Diseased ash trees growing away from paths and roads are left, giving areas of the wood the time and space to naturally decline.
Why do you listen to a word that idiot says? Check the facts for yourself.
@@woodlandtrust Personally I am sure you are managing best you can and battle diseases on the go. Well done and please keep going! And share with us all the progress, especially when those areas start coming alive with all the bushes, grasses and trees! THANK YOU!! We are on the right track at long last. You have all our love and support. ..xoxoxox
That comment is directed at the woodland trust who have just been recorded cutting thousands of trees down in kent,absolutely disgraceful.
Nigel Farage video!!
STOP CUTTING DOWN THE TREES , they soak up the carbon and cutting them down means you are part of the problem. LEAVE THE TREES ALONE theres no excuses for damaging the woodlands in that way.
Too many trees, too close together
rubbish, far too many trees packed into tiny area, plastic all over the lace the woodland is better at 10-20m spacing and left to fill itself in as long a voles are deterred
I witnessed flocks of sheep munching their way through it today.
It's such a waste of time and money if it's abandoned to marauding sheep.