Clearing Trees of Heaven at Dunham Massey on Sunday 15th October 2023

Nine volunteers turned out on a beautiful crisp autumn morning to meet ranger Jimmy.  Jimmy only started at Dunham in August, although he has worked previously at Styal, so it was his first time working with MNTV.

After explaining where we were working and what the task was we realised we had done the exact same job two years previously.  Tree of Heaven is an invasive non-native species that self seeds as well as grows shoots from the main trees roots.

We had a bit of nature around us as well as  a deer from the park had somehow made its way into the area we were working plus David came across a mouse or shrew not sure which.

Task completed by lunch time so we then went into the park to remove some detritus that had been pulled out of one of the ponds.  It didn't look much at first but it filled the trailer.

As I said it was a beautiful day and by late morning Jimmy had to leave us to put the car park full signs out with people queuing to get in.  Even as we were leaving cars were still coming in.

Thanks to Jimmy for looking after us and to my colleagues for their hard work.  It was a good workday.

Christine