Despite a miserable outlook for the weather, ten of us turned out this morning to litter pick and continue the work of clearing brambles from the trees in the hospice woodland.
We focused on the northern end of the woodland where trees were completely covered by brambles – cutting a way through to the trees and pulling up the brambles as far as possible for a metre radius around the trees.
In fact the weather turned out to be rather pleasant for our work and we had a very satisfying morning.
Before: the 13th January 2018
When we were surveying the nest boxes on 13 January, we found that a very large tree had fallen across the Meanwood Valley Trail between the picnic area and Adel Pond.
The tree was far too big for FOAW to even begin to tackle it with bow saws and so a request was sent to Leeds City Council Forestry Department to clear it.
It was great to discover this morning, on surveying the Meanwood Valley Trail, that the tree had been sawn up and the trail is clear again.
Thank you Leeds City Council Forestry Department!
After: the 9th February 2018
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Today, David, Rob and your correspondent joined Roger Brookes of Leeds City Council to walk the Meanwood Valley Trail from the Stairfoot Lane car park to the Seven Arches aqueduct. This is the stretch of the trail which falls within the area looked after by Friends of Adel Woods.
Our mission was to determine whether additional way markers are needed to help guide walkers using the trail.
In 2010 Friends of Adel Woods spent a number of days painting yellow way marker arrows on rocks and stones – see for example our blog entry for 26 June 2010. Our arrows are still visible, though becoming fainter and harder to see.
Our conclusion today was that we need half a dozen additional 5′ posts with arrows and MVT logos.
A boulder on the Meanwood Valley Trail bearing one of the arrows painted by FOAW in 2010.
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Friends of Adel Woods 