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Edward Mills

Jul 12, 2026

13:14
in this wood, is that something we should be thinking about at a wider scale in these small woods? Or is that, you know, is there a generalization there or is it something we, do you know what I mean? We're trying to get to how, what can somebody do in their backyard?
13:26
Yeah, gosh, there's a whole load of questions in there, isn't there? One thing you said just reminds me of a piece of work I'm doing in Lancashire at the moment.
13:35
We talked about Lancashire being, you know, one of the most impoverished counties in terms of woodland cover.
13:40
And I'm helping write a catchment-wide woodland strategy for this particular organisation.
13:47
And we're looking at how we can join some of the biggest ancient woodlands in Lancashire together and from one catchment to another, using the woodlands we've got, doing lots of hedgerow planting and using watercourses and riparian zones where there's already a little bit of woodland cover, fencing them off, trying to get some regeneration.
14:05
So, you know, I think that's one way forward.
14:09
And this particular organisation does use volunteers, so that's one way to get involved.

45 MINS LATER

59:19
So can you just run through a little bit about what you've been doing on some of that kind of work?

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