Come back

 Dave and I spent a sad morning collecting burnt plastic tree guards from above Butterley.

Close up, those trees don't look too good. No buds or leaves, but some green still visible if you scratch bark, so maybe they'll come back.

https://youtu.be/ph57IaYdEsY

Wide open spaces

Wide open spaces? Where dem trees?

Today Geoff and company carried on removing guards from SC5 (digital map ref) at Scammonden. Making steady progress on this big sprawling site. Dave brought the trailer to take away old guards so far removed, and some 36 re-useable long stakes too.

They were: Geoff, Dave, Hap, Jess, Michael, Alastair and Jared. And Richard made a passing visit with his two spaniels.

https://youtu.be/dom7VlltBUc

Bring it on home

Dave and Paul at Marsden

Another divided day. 

Myself, Dave, Paul, Matthew, Alastair, Philip, and Kayleigh were in Marsden reclaiming about 300 short stakes and guards for re-use in the Autumn.

Geoff, Jess, Tanya, Steve G and Bob were at Scammonden.

Jess and Bob at Scammonden

https://youtu.be/kZnHavrD4vQ

Bambi

Jess in the bag

More double trouble with two crews removing old plastic tree guards at different places.

In Marsden we were myself, Sarah P., Jess, Kayleigh, Tanya, Murray, Max, Matthew, Michael, Dave, and owner Neil.

At Scammonden were Geoff, Sophie, Steve G., Steve G2., Peter and Cath

And at Marsden Neil had us scouring the field for intruder deers and foals. Click here for tune.

There were a lot of failures at the Eastern end of the Marsden site, where we had planted a large number of ash, just before ash die back  hit. The rest of the site is doing really really well.