Arlesey Conser vation For Nature

o ther hand is a modern wood This was planted under an EU Farming Diversity scheme The then Bedfordshire County Council and the tenant farmer took on this programme and invited ACORN to be par t o f the community involvement. It star ted with good intentions and some ACORN stalwar ts maintained the permissive foo tpaths, ho wever, although funding was supposed to be in place to meet ACORN’s expenses this never reached ACORN and was met f rom the group’s funds. After the demise o f Beds CC ACORN ceased to be a par tner. At the moment Central Beds Council are committed to pro viding it as a community facility bu t as councillors come and go so do their policies.

It would be extremely upsetting if Etonbur y Wood was no t allo wed to mature and eventually become a fu ture ancient woodland So become a “Lorax” and speak for the trees!

ACORN’s f irst venture into mass planting a hedge interspersed with specimen trees [no t sure where some o f them went] was under the go vernment’s Green Sites programme Under the guidance o f The Her tfordshire Groundwork Trust it organised the hedge and tree planting round the council’s playing f ield Go and take a look at it no w This was under taken with help f rom Go thic Mede School Ho w many o f you gro wnups remember taking par t when you were at Go thic Mede? The Green Sites programme was set up for communities that had been scarred by mining and quarr ying to help them become greener pleasant places to live. The Green, opposite the Eagles, was also landscaped by ACORN under the same initiative as was Woodland Chase. The scheme also funded ACORN’s hedgelaying training with a master hedgelayer which was mentioned in last month’s ar ticle

A lo t o f the woods we have today are the remnants o f Ancient woodland These have been managed for hundreds o f years for their timber Etonbur y Wood on the