Our work on the Longshaw Estate and Eastern Moors
Woodland work
Over the next five years our rangers will be managing a programme of woodland work at Longshaw; opening up some glades, felling many of the old scots pine plantation trees and planting native species.
More woodland edges and open parkland will mean better habitats for lots of insects and birds. A lot of work has already been done around Sheffield Plantation, and we're already seeing the benefit for wildlife. You can see birds such as kestrels and redstarts, and wildflowers more than ever before around where the plantation used to be.
Improvements to our visitor facilities
We've doubled the number of spaces in Woodcroft car park and created an all-weather surface with better drainage. There are now a number of accessible spaces and a coach parking bay for the Moorland Discovery Centre.
We're now working on the next part of our Visitor Experience Design project: building a ranger base, so the rangers can move their equipment and storage areas away from the visitor hub. We'll then reconfigure the visitor centre to expand the tea room and making it more accessible.
A snapshot of our work
Here's a quick round up of some of the jobs we get stuck in with:
- woodland restoration
- working with education groups
- events, walks, talks and more
- running our tea-room and shop
- planting memorial trees
- maintaining our holiday cottage
- dry stone wall building and restoration
- fencing
- haymeadow monitoring
- membership recruitment
- tree surveys
- christmas tree sales
