400,000 trees to be planted across North Yorkshire (From Gazette & Herald)

400,000 trees to be planted across North Yorkshire

10:37am Friday 5th February 2010

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FOREST workers are set to hand-plant nearly 400,000 trees in four months in North Yorkshire.

The Forestry Commission says the new trees will cover 390 acres in Langdale Forest, near Pickering, Ingleby Greenhow, near Stokesley, Gilling, near Helmsley, Sneaton, near Whitby and Harwood Dale, north of Scarborough.

The planting will make-up for those harvested for timber and also help broaden wildlife habitats, while also making good looses sustained during a stormy night in 2005, when an estimated one million trees were either toppled or badly damaged on the commission’s land in North Yorkshire.

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