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The Great Big Dorset Hedge
The Great Big Dorset Hedge is a DorsetCAN campaign to map, plant, expand, extend and join up sections of hedgerow around and across Dorset into multiple corridors that promote biodiversity and help wildlife of all sorts (birds, insects, amphibians, mammals, wildflowers, trees, fungi) to flourish across the county.
If you're keen to get involved, you can follow this thread:
1. Read on for more details about the idea on this page
(1a - if you want more details in a digestible form, look here)
2. Watch the invitation to volunteers (6 mins)
3. To sign up as a volunteer, please click here
4. Train yourself by learning more about using the Adams Hedge Assessment method
5. Download the Great Big Dorset Hedge MAPapp
If you're keen to get involved, you can follow this thread:
1. Read on for more details about the idea on this page
(1a - if you want more details in a digestible form, look here)
2. Watch the invitation to volunteers (6 mins)
3. To sign up as a volunteer, please click here
4. Train yourself by learning more about using the Adams Hedge Assessment method
5. Download the Great Big Dorset Hedge MAPapp
Imagine a Great Big Dorset Hedge, made up of a network of connected, well-managed hedgerows, stretching across Dorset, north to south and east to west, so that every community has an opportunity to get involved.
We're starting with hedges along the Jubilee Way and four of Dorset's other major walking trails.
We're starting with hedges along the Jubilee Way and four of Dorset's other major walking trails.
We want to catch the imagination of people across Dorset, so the campaign takes shape and grows alongside the hedgerow.
Imagine gaps or lost connections in a Great Big Dorset Hedge being planted up, in many cases by local tree planting groups with the young and old working side by side, connected by a common desire to see more hedges and trees in Dorset.
Imagine the Great Big Dorset Hedge helping people to feel more connected with the places where they live and work, with nature, and with their communities through a shared scheme that actively helps nature recovery in Dorset.
Imagine helping communities to plant and look after more hedgerow trees, encouraging them to talk about them, to celebrate their companionship and the many benefits they bring us and the natural world.
We are starting with the Jubilee Trail, the Stour Valley Way, the Brit Valley Trail, the Wareham Forest Way and the Purbeck Wayt, but the more wandering and diverse the hedge becomes, the more it will start to form a giant network of natural connections and wildlife-friendly corridors.
It might take a generation for it to stretch the length and breadth of the county.
It might take a generation for it to stretch the length and breadth of the county.
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