Woodland
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…
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…
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section… Woodpeckers.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Walk around the lower woodlands that are dripping with mosses and lichens, then onto a wander through the new plantation ending with a look at the ancient Beech trees in Craggy Wood.
These upland, mixed broadleaf woodlands are part of the Lake District's remaining fragments of temperate rainforest, rich in mosses, ferns and liverworts.
Bluebells and wild garlic…
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.
Join us for one of our conservation days in Staveley Woodlands Nature Reserve.
Join us for one of our conservation days in Staveley Woodlands Nature Reserve.
There is definitely an Autumnal feel to the weather at the moment, with warm wet days followed by crisp, sunny, dry ones. All the leaves are turning to deep auburn and brown and slowly drifting…