Saving Devon's Treescapes
South Huish Parish Council
News from the SOUTH HAMS TREE WARDENS NETWORK:
A new initiative called Saving Devon’s Treescapes has started work this year to tackle the problems facing Devon’s treescapes. The project is led by Devon Wildlife Trust on behalf of the Devon Ash Dieback Resilience Forum and is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, as well as other funders.
Saving Devon’s Treescapes aims to provide hope and action in the face of the alarming changes that are already affecting our precious treescapes. The project has secured tremendous support from a wide range of partner organisations. Together with help from local communities, farms and businesses we’ll plant and nurture over 250,000 trees outside of woodlands. The project will enable people to plant free trees, care for and celebrate our treasured treescapes, supporting local action for wildlife and climate change.
A brief summary of what we’re doing at the moment:
- Setting up a community tree nursery at Meeth nature reserve – there will hopefully be three built across the five years of the project. We’ll be starting to recruit volunteers at the end of August
- Citizen science project – a web based app to monitor ancient and veteran trees. You will also be able to monitor key specices such as brown hairstreak butterflies to help us understand the health of our treescapes. Hopefully this will be ready by the end of August.
- Cultural celebration around ash tress with Beaford arts – we’ll be doing walks and talks with storytellers
- Farm advisory visits with FWAG SW – particular focus on planting, restoring and nurturing hedgerows
- Hedgerow tree planting – we will need lots of volunteers to help with this
- Different planting scheme – free tree scheme for individuals to plant one or two trees in their garden, urban edges, fruit routes, small woodlands (around 500 trees)
- Working with schools to do plantings and possibly set up some small nurseries
Find out more here: https://www.devonwildlifetrust.org/what-we-do/our-projects/saving-devons-treescapes and an introductory video to the project on Twitter and Facebook.
Contact Information
Katharine Harrod
- 07704 941150
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