Restoring Hardknott Forest

The Autumn newsletter is here. Latest news on montane woodland plans, site maintenance, acrobatic squirrel, new volunteer dates (including our first hedge laying days), update on the Nature Rich Miterdale project, heatwaves & trees cover research & more. Link in bio ⤵️

We had visits from two @CumbriaUni groups last week. Outdoor Adventure & Environmental Studies students joined us for a visit, with added Sitka spruce removal. And a group on the Professional Forestry degree came to discuss our use of larch & to have a look around the nursery.

Here's our entry for the "greatest number of people pointing at a pine marten scat" competition. If no-one can beat this we'll award ourselves a prize at the end of the year.

Consider yourself challenged! 🎤 ⤵️

Just launched alongside a brilliant exhibition at the Rheged Centre "Forty Fells - Conversations about change in the Lake District mountains" is a set of stories & photographs linked to forty Cumbrian fells. Look out for our chapter. Photos: Tom McNally.

With the reintroduction of the pine marten to Cumbria it's great to see them alongside red squirrels at Hardknott Forest again, as they are in Scotland where these came from. The two species are able to co-exist & the agile reds are very rarely able to be caught by martens. (1/2)