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Restoring Hardknott Forest
Hardknott Forest is located at the northern end of Duddon Valley in the Lake District National Park. The remote location and difficult road access means that timber production is not financially viable. After close consultation with local people and organisations, Forestry England decided not to continue productive forestry at Hardknott. This created a unique opportunity to restore the entire 630 hectare plantation to native woodland. The University of Leeds and Forestry England have worked together since 2004 to restore Hardknott Forest to native woodland. The restored native woodlands will enhance biodiversity, store large amounts of carbon that will help mitigate climate change and provide opportunities for people to enjoy a wild, upland woodland. We want to create a woodland that is as natural as possible, so we let natural processes do most of the work for us. If conditions are right, trees will reseed naturally - oak, birch, holly, willow and rowan are all returning to the forest. Non-native trees are also regenerating, so we remove these to prevent them from dominating the new native woodlands. Some rarer native tree species no longer have a nearby seed source, so we plant t.
Broughton-in-Furness Cumbria 1% for the Planet
The record
- Headquarters
- Broughton-in-Furness Cumbria
- Website
- www.uboc.co.uk/portfolio/hardknott-forest
- Focus
- Land Conservation, Wildlife Biodiversity
- Bioregion
- Lake District Cumbria
Nearby organizations
- The Freshwater Biological Association10 miles away
- WildTeam UK17 miles away
- Lake District Foundation18 miles away
- Polar Citizen Science Collective20 miles away
- The Outward Bound Trust24 miles away
- National Parks Partnerships LLP – UK National Parks Foundation36 miles away
More organizations in the Lake District Cumbria
- Another WayPenrith
- Cumbria Wildlife TrustKendal Cumbria
- Eden Rivers TrustPenrith
- Fix the FellsGrasmere Ambleside
- Futureproof CumbriaPenrith
- Institute For Outdoor LearningCarlisle Cumbria
- Lake District FoundationKendal
- National Parks Partnerships LLP – UK National Parks FoundationCarlisle
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- 1 OceanMarseille
- 2DegreesCBellingham, WA
- 300 Committee Land Trust IncFalmouth, MA
- 30×30 UKLondon
- 350 TacomaTacoma, WA
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