Trees Get Their Week

As everything else gets a week so it's the turn of trees. Eastern Moors are planting six thousand and appealing for volunteers to help. It's welcome but the vast quantities of land artificially kept treeless for generations on their estates means you may have to search out the areas chosen (behind the works off Baslow Road and alongside Fox Lane).  A hundred times that number would be a good start. The expanse of Bigmoor is not part of the plan being preferred for the dreaded heather.  Burbage and Houndkirk too - you can almost hear them calling out for plantings. It would have been nice to be invited to discuss these plantings, the trees selected and the areas chosen but it's another case of being excluded in favour of carefully chosen stakeholders.

Walking in the woods on Blacka it's hard to imagine these places without trees. Atmosphere is all.

It would perhaps be appropriate for SRWT to celebrate National Tree Week with lots of chain-saw activity. If they've planted any trees at all I've missed them. The list of those destroyed, however, keeps growing - unlike the trees themselves.

Are they looking at these? Several nearby have recently gone.