Nidderdale AONB Tree Wardens, Friends and Countryside Volunteers have been busy planting trees during March and April at some wonderful locations in the AONB.

The 2ha former Toft Gate Wood on Greenhow, clear felled early last century, has been planted up with 1100 native trees and shrubs  with financial support from Harrogate Rotary Club's carbon offset scheme. Members of the Rotary also helped with the planting.

Rotary money also supported the start of converting a conifer wood at Middlesmoor to broadleaves, again with volunteers doing the planting, including help from Open Country;

and a further Rotary-funded scheme at Greygarth that will enhance ancient oak woodland saw volunteers and Rotary members working shoulder-to-shoulder with Army Apprentices.

Another restoration of oak woodland at Stripe Head Farm at Wath gave volunteers superb views down to Gouthwaite as they toiled away in warm sunshine;

and the third consecutive year of re-stocking part of the SSSI at Dallowgill with local provenance oaks gave us some useful exercise carrying all the trees and gear into the steeply-sided gill.

In total more than 1700 native species trees have been planted by volunteers.