March 7, 2025
20 years ago, your tree dedications and donations supported the planting of 5,500 trees to create Pasture Wood, a new native wood overlooking the town of Grassington. The trees have grown to become a thriving young woodland, with stunning views across Wharfedale. Ongoing... View Article
March 7, 2025
In December 2024, we celebrated the planting of the first trees grown from seed as part of our Seed to Sapling project. The two hazel saplings originated from seeds collected at Ivelet Wood, near Muker in Swaledale, where hazel trees have grown... View Article
September 19, 2024
Getting jobs in the environment sector is not easy for young people. In 2021, we recruited our first YDMT Woodland Trainees to help address the shortage of young people coming into the forestry sector and to bring much-needed skills to... View Article
November 13, 2023
A thriving woodland on a Yorkshire Dales farm is helping to demonstrate how planting trees and hedgerows can benefit farming, as well as creating vital habitats for wildlife and tackling climate change. Westfields Farm in Chapel-le-Dale has seen 2,000 new trees planted along a beck, as... View Article
August 17, 2023
Our Seed to Sapling project is helping to ensure we have the right trees to plant here in the Dales by supporting communities in the Dales to grow new trees from local provenance seed. Community tree growing schemes in the Dales... View Article
Tackling climate change and restoring nature are the biggest challenges facing the Yorkshire Dales today. Nature can be a real answer to all of those. We caught up with our Chief Executive David Sharrod to reflect on YDMT’s impact and his hopes... View Article
February 20, 2023
In 2021 we recruited our first woodland trainee at Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust to help address the shortage of young people coming into the forestry sector. Now we’re helping new trainee Chloe follow her dream of becoming an arborist. As part... View Article
August 16, 2022
As the loss of our iconic ash trees transforms the Dales landscape, planting field trees is increasingly important to replace and extend lost tree cover. Ash is prevalent in woodlands across the Dales and a landmark in our fields, farms,... View Article
November 3, 2021
Thanks to support from the European Outdoor Conservation Association, our Plastic Free Woodlands project has already made significant progress in removing redundant plastic tree guards from the Yorkshire Dales landscape, championing alternatives, and highlighting the issue of plastics in forestry... View Article
September 8, 2021
Legacy gifts are helping to ensure the Yorkshire Dales remains a wonderful and inspiring place now and in the future. Legacies, large or small, make an enormous difference to this area, supporting a wide range of projects from new woodlands... View Article
