Scouts plant trees at Sandringham
WEST Norfolk scouts helped create a woodland for the future when they planted 1,000 young trees on the Sandringham Estate.
More than 200 volunteers from 12 scout, cub and beaver packs went to the Royal Estate at the weekend and dug deep to plant the ash and oak saplings near Wolferton as part of the Scouts for Trees: 100 Woods for 100 Years project.
The campaign, headed-up by the Woodland Trust, is enabling all of the UK's 400,000 scouts to have the chance to plant a tree as part of a planting campaign aiming to plant 12 million broad-leaf trees by 2009.
Sandringham Estate manager Marcus O'Lone, who is president of North Norfolk Scouts, joined the effort and said he was "particularly pleased" the Woodland Trust was able to help the estate plant a new wood.
"Scouts for Trees is a great opportunity to help us reach out to more young people. With the help of the Scout Association we aim to plant 100 centenary groves, new areas of native woodland each made up of thousands of trees," said Christina Joachim of the Woodland Trust.
The groups who took part were: 7th Lynn Scouts, 1st Docking (Hare's Own), 2nd Marham, Nelson Rural, 19th North Runcton, 1st Dereham Beavers, 2nd Runcton Holme and Watlington Scouts, 21st Lynn, 14th Lynn Beavers, Wereham and Wretton Beavers, 12th Lynn Beavers and the 12th Aquarius Cubs.
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