Case Study: Grasslees Wood

National Park Coquetdale Area Fund - Amount Awarded - £400

National Park Voluntary Ranger working in Grasslees Wood

Grasslees Wood, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) was identified as sufferring from a lack of natural regeneration of the native broadleaf tree species - Oak and Hazel - within it during a National Park survey in 2006.

National Park Rangers and Voluntary Rangers collected seeds from the site and grew them on before planting the young trees back onto the site in early 2008.

Area funds were used to purchase equipment for this project to enable the growth of the trees, and to protect the young trees when they were re-introduced to the woodland, and also to cover costs of some trees being grown from seed by local business Cheviot Trees, at their site in Wooler.