In the crisp Saturday morning of January 19th, a fresh group of aberdeen woodland society members headed to the nearest Woodland Trust site to Aberdeen: Den Wood.
Here we were welcomed by Ross Watson, who is currently in charge of the management of the site, that introduced us to the site and its purpose. Throughout the day we too part in two great activities: Firstly we went around the site with Dr Louise Page, who taught us, with the help of the key she had created for us in advance, how to identify different tree species during winter. After this we got our hands dirty helping out Ross with the gorse clearance, an activity that taught us all: gorse is prickly. Our volunteering-education day at Den Wood culminated in a session of sitting by our gorse fire, getting warm and snacking around the fire while Ross told us about the Woodland Trust and how to get as sweet a job as his. Finally we would like to thank everyone that came around and made this day so great, and a special thank you to Ross and Louise for teaching us so much.
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