Great days with great people doing some truly great tree planting: Tangleha was a success!
Tangleha is a hamlet located in St. Cyrus, Montrose, where we went volunteering a couple of times as the Aberdeen University Woodland Society. Caspar Lampkin and his family, who lives in Tangleha, hosted us for a three-days workshop in November, when we explored a local forest and helped with a project involving oak planting. In February we visited Tangleha again and took part in restoring a nearby woodland planted by Caspar about 15 years ago, as well as planting willows and elders in the surrounding areas to increase biodiversity and tree coverage. Just during this one-day trip in February we managed to plant 300 trees, a significant contribution to Caspar’s project in creating a sustainable forest. Thank you so much for everyone that came to take part, it was such a pleasure seeing this many people taking part in woodland management, and thank you Casper and family for the stay and the wonderful opportunity to learn and get our hands dirty.
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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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