Seem quite a bit of feeling up north here as well but as mentioned it’s reaching maturity so time to go.
On the other hand this was on the forestry Facebook page the other day
“On Sunday I asked how many trees you thourght we planted this year. In Hamsterley this year we will have planted:
7000 Silver Birch
1500 Sessile Oak
1000 Hazel
500 Sweet Chestnut
100 Small Leaved Lime
Total Broadleaves = 10,100
6000 Scots Pine
5000 Sitka Spruce
5000 Western Red Cedar
4000 Douglas Fir
Total Conifers = 20,000
Total trees planted in Hamsterley Forest = 30,100
This is a combination of restocking newly felled site such as Windy Bank (the one you can see from the car park) and beating up (replacement of dead trees) on older sites across the forest, the breakdown is: 16,100 restock and 14,000 beat up.
And yes, it was very hard work!”