Find out more about nature
Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Visitors to the Yorkshire Dales National Park are being urged to start nature spotting and get involved in a national drive to increase awareness of their natural surroundings. A project run by the British Science Association is encouraging people to take photos of animals and plant life that are unfamiliar and post them on a [...]
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Award is feather in cap for Ragged Robins
Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Volunteers who help keep the Yorkshire Dales National Park in tip top condition have won a regional conservation award. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn presented the Ragged Robin Conservation Group with an award for the Countryside category in the second Yorkshire Post Environment Awards, which were by hosted by TV personality Julia Bradbury. The group, which [...]
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Search for historic dovecotes
Posted by admin on February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The hunt is on for historic dovecotes in the Yorkshire Dales.
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Award for wood fuel boiler installation
Posted by admin on February 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A special ‘green’ boiler that heats the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s offices in Grassington has won a top regional award – less than three months after it was installed. The Authority took first place in the best public building installation category of the Yorkshire and Humber Microgeneration Partnership awards for its biomass boiler, which [...]
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Friends of the Three Peaks go online
Posted by admin on October 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Lovers of the Yorkshire Dales now have the chance to help preserve its famous Three Peaks online. In August, Calendar Girl Angela Baker became the first person to join a new group formed by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) to support and raise money towards the maintenance of the footpath network around Whernside, [...]
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Yorkshire Dales web volunteers wanted
Posted by admin on October 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
More volunteers are needed to help the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) to improve the online services it provides to the public. So far, nearly 20 people have signed up to become members of a focus group that casts a critical eye over the Authority’s website at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk. Stuart Willis, the YDNPA’s Web Officer, [...]
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Yorkshire Dales mountain weather service
Posted by admin on October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A new mountain area weather forecast for the Yorkshire Dales will provide hill walkers with clearer information to help keep them safer, whilst making the most of the spectacular countryside. For the first time Met Office forecasts will be provided for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in addition to comprehensive forecasts already provided for the [...]
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Sedbergh school pupils learn about conservation
Posted by admin on October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Pupils at Settlebeck High School in Sedbergh have been working hard to learn more about conservation – with a little help from the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA). They now have their own outdoor learning area in the grounds after Becky Barnes, a student now in Year 10, received a grant for a project [...]
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Crushing bracken using horse power
Posted by admin on September 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Conservation experts will be using horsepower to help control the growth of bracken around historical sites in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A special horse-drawn roller has been brought in to crush the plant around the exceptionally well preserved and extensive earthworks of a large group of cultivation terraces dating from pre-Roman times near Threshfield. [...]
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Grow more trees in the National Park
Posted by admin on May 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Landowners are being offered cash to plant more trees in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The scheme aims to increase the area of the National Park covered by native broadleaved woodland which, in turn, will help boost wildlife habitats as well.
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