A fine morning and nine of us met in the Stairfoot Lane carpark at 10 am – four volunteers for litterpicking and five for clearing footpaths.
Some kindly soul had left half a dozen bags of compost – possibly from a cannabis farm – just over the fence from the carpark. Before we left we emptied the compost into the undergrowth and put the plastic bags in the carpark waste bin.
Litterpicking
Our litterpickers made their way along Crag Lane to Old Leo’s rugby club carpark. They found little litter on Crag Lane or around Adel Crag. However, there was plenty in the Stairfoot Lane carpark and around the rugby club and they picked up about two bags including lots of bags of dog faeces, many bottles and a filled disposable nappy.
A special mention goes to Rowan, our youngest volunteer this morning, who was very enthusiastic and very good at spotting difficult to see bits of glass!
Path clearing
Our path clearers first of all tackled a birch tree which had fallen across the path from the Stairfoot Lane carpark up to the hospice woodland. We then pruned back some holly a little higher up the same path.
Our next destination was Adel Crag where another silver birch had fallen over between Crag Lane and the Crag. We also took the opportunity to prune some of the scrub in that area.
In August Storm Lilian blew two very large oak trees over onto the Crag. The trees are far too big for Friends of Adel Woods to tackle, but we completed our morning’s work by clearing away some of the smaller branches to the side of the Crag.
Finally, we cleared away a pallet which had been left by the Crag.
Join Friends of Adel Woods!
We hope that you have enjoyed reading about our activities and would be delighted if you would like to join us.
Friends of Adel Woods were formed in 2009 to help maintain Adel Woods and encourage people to enjoy them. We meet one weekend morning a month to carry out various jobs or ”work parties”, and we also put on educational events such as bat walks, fungal forays and birdsong walks.
We are a very friendly group and welcome new members who want to help preserve our special woods, enjoy fresh air and exercise in the woods, and make new friends. If you would like to take part in our activities, keep an eye on our Home Page and just come along to one of our work parties.
Over the last fifteen years we have picked up over four hundred bags of rubbish – which makes you wonder what the woods would look like today without the loving care our volunteers have given them.
In our first two litterpicks alone in July and August 2009 we picked up fifty three bags of litter plus many things which will not fit into a plastic bag – like a chair and a shopping trolley. You can find our reports here – July 2009 and August 2009.
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