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Hedgerow management
Hedgerows have been grown for centuries on farms as a way to improve the resilience of the land. Find out how to manage and care for your hedgerows to help get the best out of them.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Pine marten
Shy, curious and playful. The pine marten is a stealthy, acrobatic hunter that relies on the cover of woods and trees for its foraging missions. It’s critically endangered in England and Wales as much of its woodland habitat has been lost.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Red deer
The majestic monarch of the glen. Our largest land mammal, red deer, are the royalty of UK woodland.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Beard lichens
Dripping off the trees in clean-air woodlands, these beautiful bushy beard lichens adorn branches and trunks.
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Plant trees
Shelterbelt
Shelterbelts have been used for hundreds of years to protect livestock and crops from the elements. Find out how they can work on your land and the benefits they can provide.
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Plant trees
Creating a woodland: planning and design
Growing a wood from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, but thorough planning will put you on the path to success.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Deadwood
Dead and decaying wood is one of any woodland's most important microhabitats. Learn more about why we need more of it, as well as the rare and endangered beetles, colourful fungi and other threatened wildlife that relies on it.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Lime, small-leaved
Charming, sturdy, pollinator-magnet. Not only does the small-leaved lime’s blossom produce a sweet scent and pleasantly minty honey, its leaves support the caterpillars of moths such as the lime hawk, peppered and vapourer.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Hazel dormouse
Sleepy, charming, undeniably cute. This minute mammal needs trees to survive and is seriously endangered.
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Trees woods and wildlife
Wet woodland
Wild, transient, boggy and rare. Wet woodlands are now some of our least common wooded habitats. Trees like alder, willows and birch dominate on wet soils, whilst sedges, ferns and mosses flourish beneath.