TREES PLEASE
The Government’s Green Revolution policy to plant more than 30,000 trees per year is being embraced in the Yorkshire Dales where they recently discovered that the national park has fewer trees than London.
While London has 4.5 per cent woodland cover, the Dales weighed in with only 4.1 per cent. However, the park authority has just approved the planting of trees across some 15,000 acres over the next ten years, which will bring woodland coverage up to a much more desirable 7 per cent.
Ian McPherson, a spokesman on natural environment at the Yorkshire Dales National Park authority, said that while the open farmed character of the park must be conserved, “The new ambitions represent a significant scaling up of woodland creation and management in the national park, but we are all clear that the trees must be planted in the right place and for the right reasons.”