TAX paid to dump waste in landfill sites has provided £150,000 to plant new woodland in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust has successfully bid for funding from the SITA Trust, which distributes the money, and it is hoped at least 185 acres of new native woodland will be created in the AONB and surrounding areas.
The AONB managemen
t team is interested in hearing from landowners in Nidderdale who are looking to create or restore native broadleaf woodlands. In particular the AONB wants to plant upland mixed ash woodland, upland oak woodland and wet woodland.
Sites must be within 10 miles of a landfill site, must support Biodiversity Action Plan objectives, must complement moorland Special Area of Conservation objectives and must support other local and regional strategies for woodland creation.
The AONB's Farm Conservation Adviser, Marian Wilby, said: "Trees and woodland form a very important part of the Nidderdale AONB landscape. A number of people have taken advantage of previous woodland creation schemes, which have proved very successful."
The process of woodland creation starts each spring when applicants with possible sites that have the potential to be planted up as woodland contact the AONB. Sites are assessed and planned so that they are ready for the tree-planting season which runs from November to March.
Anyone with land suitable for the project and who wants information about woodland planting can contact Ms Wilby on 01423 712950 or email
marian.wilby@harrogate.gov.uk
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