Returning Elm Trees to the Forest

The project aims to involve local people in the process of re-introducing Elm trees in to the Marston Vale, where they were once an important landscape feature; and in doing so enable a new generation of people to develop an interest in elms, their history and biodiversity. Two hundred elm seedlings with potential disease resistance -supplied through the Conservation Foundation’s ‘Great British Elm Experiment’-, will be raised in specially constructed nursery beds by volunteers trained informally in tree nursery skills, for planting out in the Forest in winter 2013/14, where long-term monitoring of their growth will take place for the purposes of the GBEE.