The White Rose Forest supported the planting of 65,000 trees on National Trust land at March Haigh, during the 2023-2024 planting season, to recreate the woodland habitat that would have existed in the steep sided valleys (cloughs) on the edge of Marsden Moor. The trees will increase biodiversity, help prevent the spread of moorland fires, and provide natural flood management in the upper Calder Catchment in West Yorkshire.
The White Rose Forest's Trees for Climate fund, part of the Government's Nature for Climate fund, paid for the woodland creation as well as the staff time, surveys and design work required to make it possible to plant trees in this sensitive protected landscape.
The project is part of a wider landscape-scale nature restoration programme on National Trust and Yorkshire Water land in West Yorkshire. To find out more about the free support and funding available for woodland creation in North and West Yorkshire from the White Rose Forest, visit www.whiteroseforest.org.