You are Welcome…
Asby Tree Group would like to invite everyone to take a look at ‘Mask Wood’. All the finger-posts, seats and nest boxes are in place and the pathways are mown.
Please keep to the pathways to enjoy the wildflowers that are now in bloom.
Please respect the Management Committee’s request that no dogs are taken into the wood. This is to avoid disturbance to birds nesting in lower levels of shrubs and because – in the medium to long-term – sheep will ne reintroduced to the wood for part of each year to control grass growth and ensure the continued regeneration of wildflowers.
The only other reminder is to avoid parking across the entrance to the immediately adjacent field if you are using the top pedestrian gate to access the wood.
Leaflets about this Community Woodland, designed by Rosie Collin of Well Green, and using the contents of a survey undertaken by Cumbria Wildlife Trust, are available at each pedestrian gate to provide a map, and to give guidance on some of the flower and grass species to be found here. (You can also download a PDF copy from the link below.)
Thanks are due to Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs who provided funding for the project, to Kenny Bainbridge and ‘Young’ Arnie Maughan who undertook all of the groundworks, and to many of the Tree Group’s volunteers who have planted more than 500 trees, mown pathways, made and installed bat boxes, and fixed nest boxes to trees.
