Wigan Today on MSN

Work on an exciting further phase of Haigh Woodland Park's transformation is set to begin within days

Developers are to move onto the site of the former Haigh Zoo during the week ahead to begin the latest phase of Wigan’s jewel ...
wtvr

Neglected 107-year-old Virginia cemetery celebrates restoration: 'Family members get emotional'

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- Community members gathered to celebrate Woodland Cemetery's 107th anniversary and to mark the significant progress of restoring the historic African American cemetery in East ...
WRIC

PHOTOS: Volunteers gather to restore Woodland Cemetery

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Volunteers gathered at Woodland Cemetery in eastern Henrico to continue the effort to restore the historic cemetery. The Woodland Restoration Foundation purchased the ...
WRIC

Henrico nonprofit uncovers thousands of gravesites at historically Black Woodland Cemetery in Richmond

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — After years of neglect, one Henrico nonprofit organization uncovered thousands of gravesites at a historically Black cemetery. Woodland Cemetery was founded in 1917 by ...
Yahoo

Sandi’s Great British Woodland Restoration, review: does Toksvig’s passion project really warrant a TV show?

Sandi Toksvig has bought 15 acres of woodland - Christopher Doyle/Channel 4 Sandi Toksvig and her wife have bought 15 acres of woodland. It is their “little slice of arboreal heaven”. This is lovely ...
wtvr

She hadn't seen her mother's grave in decades. These volunteers helped make it possible.

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- On a cloudy Thursday morning last September, three people made their way through Woodland Cemetery in eastern Henrico County. Two had been coming there for years. One had not ...
Luther College

Luther’s woodland restoration efforts create a healthy native habitat for humans and wildlife

DECORAH, IOWA—This summer, the Dr. Donald H. Nelson Woodlands was a focus of landscape restoration efforts on the Luther campus. Led by Luther Professor and Natural Areas Manager Molly McNicoll, ...
The Daily Californian

$5K UC Berkeley grant aids in blue oak restoration work

The Green Initiative Fund, or UC Berkeley’s Campus Green Fund, awarded $5,000 to the Oak Woodland Restoration Project at UC Berkeley’s Hastings Natural History Reservation, or Hastings, last fall. The ...
BBC

Invasive plants cleared from ancient woodland

He added while the trust could sometimes "get a little bit of flak from the public" for clearing the plants, it was necessary ...
Woodland Daily Democrat

Woodland community organizations help in restoration of Woodland Regional Park Preserve

Woodland Regional Park Preserve had several organizations and volunteers out this past week, helping out with a planting and mass weed removal project. The Woodland Regional Park Preserve is a ...
Science Daily

Pine woodland restoration creates haven for birds in Midwest

Researchers have shown in a new study that restoration of pine woodlands, through the combined use of intentional, managed fires and strategic thinning of tree density, has a strikingly beneficial ...