Reforesting the UK: 'Trees are the ultimate long-term project'

The UK needs 1.5bn new trees to tackle the climate crisis - a Northumberland project is showing one way forward"This whole area wants to be a wood," says Edward Milbank, sweeping his arm across the former hill farm in Northumberland. Small saplings of birch have invaded the cleared ground, but many more trees are being pushed into the soil by hand.The bracken and rhododendron that had overrun the hillside took heavy machinery three months to rip out. "When you disturb the soil, it becomes a wood very quickly," says Milbank. Continue reading...