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TREE HUGGING - ANCIENT TREE HUNT


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One for the nature lovers out there. As featured on Autumnwatch, the Woodland Trust are running a campaign to identify the countries Ancient trees by hugging them. Each hug (measuring around 1.5 metres) = 75 years. Alternatively you can simply take a tape measure and divide the total centimetres by 2 to work out the age. The measurement must be done 1.5 metres up the tree. Once found there's a form to fill in and the tree can be registered on-line with your name against it. There's even space on the form to say if you're recording as part of an Organisation. Imagine how many us geocachers could find. :blink:

 

The aim of the hunt is to locate and identify our ancient trees, create a database of them in order to help conserve them. As cachers we must walk past plenty of these all the time. There's an interactive map and even if you find a tree that's already been found you can log that you've visited it.

 

Further details can be found at http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk/project/hunt/.

 

Happy hunting. :huh:

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