ENVIRONMENTAL charity, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) is interested in hearing from landowners in the Nidderdale and Yorkshire Dales areas who are looking to create or restore native broadleaf woodlands.

The process of woodland creation starts each spring when applicants contact the Trust with possible sites which have the potential to be planted up as woodland.

Sites are assessed and planned and then are hopefully ready for the tree-planting season which runs from November to March.

Chris Lodge, YDMT Project Officer explained, “The Trust is proud to have been involved in over one hundred tree planting projects so far. As part of our aims we intend to continue this work and increase the native broadleaf tree cover across the Yorkshire Dales; helping to meet our targets and those of our partner organisations.”

If you would like more information about woodland planting and if you have land you feel might be suitable for such projects please contact Chris Lodge on 015242 51002 or email: chris.lodge@ydmt.org.

Further information is available on the YDMT’s website at www.ydmt.org