Our research woodland has just opened a new public pathway! We're excited to open this first new path along the edge of our growing woodland, as well as adding a new sign to help visitors understand some of the research we're doing at #GairWood 🧪🌍🌳
To find out more about #GairWood and the research and volunteering opportunities on site, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
Volunteers in wet weather gear, planting seedlings under a vivid rainbow
This #NationalTreeWeek we're celebrating all the research and practical conservation and restoration work that's done across our group. For example, a massive thankyou to our regular Friends of #GairWood group for their hard work planting a new hedge at our research woodland over the weekend!
Using #GairWood as a living laboratory, this PhD project will shed light on the above questions - follow the link for more information and to find out how to apply:
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Applications open 17th Nov 2025, closing date 7th Jan 2026. 💻
📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
Want to do a PhD in a cool new woodland with a really lovely team?
Come join @catzigle.bsky.social, @ejduncan.bsky.social, and Tom Sloan, (plus me and @sophiebrandon.bsky.social) researching and establishing #GairWood! 🌳🧪🌍
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
A rewarding day out helping to maintain hedge guards with @ncas-uk.bsky.social at #GairWood @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🌱🌳 #Conservation #Volunteering
To kick this off @leedsleaf.bsky.social + @whiteroseforest.bsky.social are hosting a free workshop on 14th July at #GairWood in Leeds to discuss progress with, and challenges to, successful woodland establishment: tinyurl.com/woodestablishment
It's raining!! I can hear it on the road outside! Our trees at #GairWood are going to be so thrilled 🥰
"My motivation kind of grew with the trees"
Volunteers at our #GairWood research and woodland creation site contributed to this new document on the experiences and motivations for volunteering in British woodlands, created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
4 hours sleep and a very large coffee later, I'm back at #GairWood for some tree protection work with @sophiebrandon.bsky.social and our latest group of volunteers!
I downloaded a year of footage from the timelapse camera at our research woodland, #GairWood. So satisfying to watch the grass change through the seasons!
A small group of people in a field, replacing small white plastic guards with tall green guards
More tree guard replacement today with the Biosphere Atmosphere Group at #GairWood!
The #GairWood team expanded recently! Welcome @sophiebrandon.bsky.social!
In the Leeds area and keen to help with woodland creation? We're running some vital volunteering sessions next week to increase the protection for vulnerable saplings at #GairWood. Please sign up and share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-prote...
I spent my afternoon at #GairWood helping to protect nearly 175 baby trees from hungry deer. It was so lovely and satisfying!
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An artistic map of a woodland divided into different planted areas. Border artwork also shows young growing trees, grasses, students with a quadrat, and wildlife
Last year we planted #GairWood, a >60,000 tree research woodland in the north of England. Lots of our team and collaborators are now studying it as it grows!
For more info and videos exploring the site and some key research, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
