Woodland management at Potteric Carr
Reserves Officer Jim Horsfall explains why woodland management is necessary, and how we go about doing it.
Reserves Officer Jim Horsfall explains why woodland management is necessary, and how we go about doing it.
One of the first signs of spring is the slow peek of woodland wildflowers through the leaf litter of the forest floor, spreading out like a colourful carpet between the tree trunks. Nodding white…
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
This spring, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are encouraging gardeners of plots big and small across Yorkshire to consider their local wildlife in their yearly plans. This is part 3 of 4 looking at what…
Water Haigh Woodland Park is an intimate matrix of inter-connected pockets of broadleaved woodland, pasture, hedgerow and wetland.
We are pleased to announce this project which awards funding to landowners in the Upper Aire to improve water quality and flood management.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Every spring, many of our woodlands burst into colour with beautiful purple carpets of bluebells.
South Reserves Assistant, Katie Baker, talks us through ecological succession and why it is important for Reserve Managers, in order to maintain precious habitats.
The secretive woodlark can be hard to spot. It nests on the ground on our southern heathlands and uses scattered trees and woodland edges for lookout posts.
A spring delight, the wood anemone grows in dappled shade in ancient woodlands. Traditional management, such as coppicing, can help such flowers by opening up the woodland floor to sunlight.