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Northern Shropshire Countryside Service -
Trees for a living landscape ? |
June 18
2004
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Trees for a Living Landscape is a new project
for northern Shropshire coordinated by the Northern Shropshire Countryside
Service and driven forward by local Tee Wardens. We are working closely with
the Blue Remembered Hills project in south Shropshire
Trees for a Living Landscape is a two year project, the main aims of which
are:
- Distribute 35,000 native trees to community groups and landowners onto
land suitable for tree planting where there is no loss of already
established good habitat.
- Link with the Tree Councils national campaign to tag hedgerow trees
thereby ensuring their possible survival of the modern tractor mounted
flail.
- Undertake a Veteran Tree Survey for the north of Shropshire, gather
seed from those trees still viable and establish a Veteran Tree Nursery.
The resultant trees shall then be distributed as a specialist Shropshire
product with a certificate and picture and details of the parent tree
thereby encouraging people to appreciate the massive longevity of tree
genealogy. We would also like to get schools and community groups to
research the human associations of a veteran tree within their own area,
tales and anecdotes of the tree, celebrating the tree as part of
generations of lives and to produce a booklet for the area.
For further details contact
Shaun Burkey
Conservation & Community Officer
Project Coordinator, Trees for a Living Landscape Northern Shropshire
Countryside Service Swan Hill Ellesmere
SY12 0DQ Tel: 01691 624448
Shaun.Burkey@shropshire-cc.gov.uk
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