VOLUNTEER  PROGRAMME

NEWS

We have created a new small planter on platform 1, with a small seat or perch attached.  It is proving quite popular!

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The Lancaster (or should it be Morecambe?) & Skipton Rail Action Group (LASRUG) have asked us to write a 'Letter from Bare Lane' for their next newsletter.  We will shortly be entering our 14th year as Northern Station Adopters.

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Our newly planted hedge alongside the lane at White Lund Farm, is coming on well and will provide a valuable wildlife corridor between the farm's hedges and Heysham Moss Nature Reserve, run by Lancashire Wildlife Trust. 

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Yet another planning application has been submitted to Lancaster City Council for 110 homes off Fulwood Drive in Bare.  If approved, this would put the Key Urban Landscape of Torrisholme Barrow at considerable risk of encroachment.

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All our planting work since 2020 has now been added to the map produced by the Trust for Conservation Volunteers (TCV).

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TASKS  

9th August - Mossgate School

We will carry out summer pruning of the orchard and soft fruit, including picking any soft fruit that hasn't already been used by the school.  Bring a bag.  We will also continue with some grass and meadow management around the trees and check our newly planted bog plants.

Lots to be done!

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23rd August - Hazelwood Farm, Silverdale

A great chance to do our butterfly survey, especially if it is a sunny day.  We will also need to do a lot of cutting back of campion and comfrey to allow the later flowering plants to thrive.

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6th September - Bare Lane Station  am

A medley of work which may include meadow management on the platform ends, damson picking and hedge management.  It will all depend on what the rest of the summer does to us!​

Great Wood  pm

We will need to clear vegetation around the pond and potentially in it, if the water level carries on dropping after the dry summer.​

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27th September - Site to be confirmed

We have been asked to create a small nature area at a primary school in Carnforth.  This is still awaiting confirmation, so watch this space.

If the date needs to be rearranged, we will do a final weed of our new planting on White Lund Farm from last year, including the area around the pond.

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11th October - Hazelwood Farm, Silverdale

This the time of year when we can cut back many of the plants from the summer months but ensuring we keep those plants with seed heads for the birds and enough vegetation for hibernating insects.

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