Some of the volunteers carried on valiantly constructing corduroy paths covered in wood chips where we left off last week. But another team walked critically around the control area looking at the ash trees. Margaret pointed out that the wet spring and the sudden dry spell will have a detrimental affect to the shallow rooted […]

Understandably, many people are away on holidays at this time and given the exceptionally wonderful weather today, we were only seven volunteers. So we decided to concentrate on the lower path which is in the shade and close to the only river which still contains a trickle of water. We ensured all the contaminated ash […]

The extent of the ash trees affected with ash dieback fungus was brought home by Tim and Ken who worked in an area around the quarry and marked each diseased tree with a line of white paint. They estimated that 80% have been attacked so far. We decided that by removing and burning as many […]

Last week I was away and so missed our weekly meeting, I was keen to see what had happened. Big news – Leo has returned after being made to wear a neck collar for weeks. Everyone was pleased to see him back in the wood amongst friends. Real progress has been made to the pathway […]