Funding boost for native woodlands

LANDOWNERS are being asked to come forward with sites to boost native woodlands across the Yorkshire Dales after a major financial boost has been secured to finance the two-year scheme.
By The Newsroom
Published 21st Dec 2011, 06:00 BST

The Clapham-based charity, the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT), has been awarded £120,000 for woodland restoration from the SITA Trust, an independent ethical funder dedicated to making improvements to the natural environment and community life. The YDMT is now looking for suitable sites and has urged landowners to come forward with potential locations for planting programmes with a mixture of native broadleaf species. Depending on each potential site, a grant of up to 100 per cent of the cost of creating the new woodland could be available to landowners.

Only around 2.5 per cent of the Yorkshire Dales National Park is covered with native broadleaf trees compared with the national average of 4.8 per cent. Plans are underway to almost double the broadleaf cover in the national park to more than 12,350 acres by 2020.

Anyone interested in taking part in the woodland programme can contact Mr Lodge on 015242 51002 or via email [email protected].

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