It’s hard to believe, but ten years have passed since LHCRT first welcomed Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) volunteers to help us restore the Lichfield Canal. Over the last decade, hundreds of young people have rolled up their sleeves, got stuck in, and made a real difference. What a journey it’s been! From clearing pathways to planting hedging, painting fences, …
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Volunteers’ Week is here, and I wanted to take a moment to talk about my experience of volunteering with Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust. Now, I get it – life is busy; work, family, social plans, the occasional attempt at a hobby, I work full-time too, so I know the feeling. But somehow, I’ve squeezed volunteering into my …
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Bird watching on the Lichfield Canal, Spring 2023 by Amanda Hilmarsson-Dunn After a pretty rotten Winter, lasting much longer than it ought, when the sun at last pokes through the window, it is time to grab one’s binoculars and head out onto the towpath to do a bit of bird spotting. There are two sections of the Lichfield Canal …
It’s surprising the amount of practical conservation work that involves cutting trees down and up rather than planting them – preventing encroachment on peat bogs and meadows, keeping paths clear, letting more light in for ground flora and of course clearing non native invasive shrubs and trees. The brash is the smaller twigs and branches that result from sawing them off from the main trunk to give workers room to move and enable handling of material.
