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More good work happening in the local area. Fancy a new site? Contact them to lend a hand in one of the nicest woodlands in the area.

Right trees, right place, right reason.
We love trees but the planting should be carefully considered. Always look up and think ahead a few decades- is there enough space for a healthy, mature tree to form its best possible canopy? How close is it to other trees? How big will it grow?
... Is it the right tree for the soil type? Do you know where it was grown? This is an area we are realising is really important for successful growing and reducing the spread of pests and diseases. Local is better.
A little research will go a long way to ensuring you make the right choice.
Finally, aftercare - so important for the first few years. Water it well and/or keep the roof area weed/grass free with a mulch. If you stake it when you plant it, make sure you adjust and eventually remove the ties as the tree grows.
Then just sit back and enjoy!
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A great meeting this evening with Wycombe Youth Council in Wycombe District Council committee room. Young people passionate about doing something to help the environment. It’s a hot topic and they want to #bethedifference. They are going to be helping in the river Wye tackling #plasticpollution and helping in local woods with conservation tasks 🔥🔥to help wildflowers and butterflies!! Plus Huw is going to research recycled paper and get more local businesses including us usi...ng it! Action can happen in many ways. #wycombeyouthcouncil #wycombeyouthaction
Wycombe Youth Action Wycombe District Council HWRGS Sir William Ramsay School Misbourne School Cressex Community Centre and Social Club Alfriston School Bourne End Academy
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Say it’s not true... but there’s time and opportunity to do your bit starting tomorrow on Green Thursday. Working? Then quick, sign up with Steph for Saturday at Bicester - we need your details today!

On Saturday 5th January, Chiltern Rangers and our weekend volunteers went to Keep Hill Woods to complete boundary and footpath maintenance. The Chipper chomped its way through the branches that were cut from the boundary and footpath,to widen and enable more light into the wood. Then we spread the chippings along the footpath. The larger branches were made into log piles to create habitat for wildlife. We were visited by 2 little tame voles that scurried about our feet. Th...ey were happy with their new log pile hotel! Great morning had by all. Huge thanks to our volunteers for their hard work, it makes such a difference having extra hands on board to help Chiltern Rangers continue to improve and enhance the environment for the local community and wildlife. Everyone is welcome to come along and volunteer with Chiltern Rangers. Keep an eye on our events page on the web-site. http://chilternrangers.co.uk/news/events- calendar-2/
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Bucks Free Press Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Community Impact Bucks Chiltern Woodlands Project Limited Marsh and Micklefield Big Local Making Local Woods Work BBC Family & Education News WDC Communities BBC South East Social Enterprise UK HWBIDCo Red Kite Community Housing RSPB Love Nature Wycombe Youth Action Tesco
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Last chance call to action to help the birds and butterflies of Bicester! If you would like to join us this Saturday for a scrub clear and bonfire at Bicester MOD, let Steph know by tomorrow! steph@chilternrangers.co.uk

Food for thought.... grapes currently on our supermarket shelves flown in from Peru.....

Try something new this year?! #newme

VOLUNTARY SATURDAY CONSERVATION SESSION Join Chiltern Rangers this Saturday and together with your help we can make a difference " enhance our environment to help wildlife." Saturday 5th January 10 till 1pm Keep Hill Woods, Waren Wood Drive HP11 1DS. Felling, Cutting, burning, dead Hedge laying. All welcome! Tools and gloves, tea, coffee & biscuits supplied by Chiltern Rangers. ... Look forward to seeing you! Happy New Year! The Chiltern Rangers
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Do your New Year's Resolutions look a little bit like this?
Spend more time outdoors 🌳 Get fitter 🏋️‍♂️ Help the environment and nature 🦋🌎... Volunteer and meet new people 👋👋
We have lots of opportunities to keep you on track with a trip to Bicester MOD on Saturday 12th January. If you'd like to join us for a morning of scrub clearance and a bonfire then please get in touch with steph@chilternrangers.co.uk
Families are welcome and it's a great way to volunteer as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
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Spent a lovely morning walking in one of the best woodland /heathland/mire spots in South Bucks. There’s always stuff going on and lots to see- check out the noticeboards. The ancient pollarded trees are spellbinding and poignant as we turn into a new year. Some have seen well over 400!!!
Check it out and look out for the pigs snuffling around whilst you’re there!
... Burnham Beeches
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Great local group-they make our bird and bat boxes for our conservation projects. Looking forward to doing more with them in 2019. Marsh and Micklefield Big Local Wycombe District Council

Some tree safety work today to finish off the year. Lots of the damage has been caused by grey squirrels stripping bark. Rot gets in and eventually the branches snap out. The squirrels are in our cross hairs for 2019....
The arisings from our work were stacked lovingly by JT & Dan into habitat piles and deadhedges - perfect refuges for the smaller woodland inhabitants such as Wrens, Stoats and our very own Tony Speight!! 🤪
... Thanks to all who have helped us in 2018 and here’s to seeing even more people out and about on our projects in 2019.
Happy New Year🥂
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Another polite reminder! We have to keep banging the drum on things like this, eventually we hope things will change.

A little reminder for everyone. Make 2019 the year you make a difference for the environment. Volunteering time is one way, reducing your consumption of plastic is another. Spread the word and encourage others to follow your example. Maybe you can do all three??!!!

Thank you to all our Green Thursday Volunteers who joined Chiltern Rangers yesterday at our Christmas Green Thursday session. We were in Deangarden Woods helping Matt at ACC Contracting who is working with us to install a new raised timber footpath to make access to the woods easier for the local community. Matt was extremely brilliant maneuvering the 5T 360 excavator & hole auger on such a gradiented slope. This certainly made digging holes for the fence posts a lot easier.... Apart from manual work that was happening there was planting too, at least 30 Native hedgerow species along the new fencing. A fire to keep the cold away and to warm us up at the end of this wonderful session, a cup of mulled wine and a mince pie! Thanks again to all our wonderful volunteers for your hard work and volunteering all year round!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Chiltern Rangers!
See you on the 3rd of January 2019 when we begin the volunteer sessions again!
Everyone is welcome to volunteer with Chiltern Rangers! Hop on board and help us to continue to improve and enhance the environment for wildlife and the community. Check out our website http://chilternrangers.co.uk/news/events- calendar-2/
Thank you for your continued support! LIKE AND SHARE AND HELP CHILTERN RANGERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
ACC Contracting Wycombe District Council WDC Communities HWBIDCo Tesco Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Bucks Free Press Community Impact Bucks Chiltern Woodlands Project Red Kite Community Housing Marsh and Micklefield Big Local BBC South East RSPB Love Nature
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ANNOUNCEMENT 🗣️: Today is International Volunteer Day! This year the UN campaign is focusing on local community volunteers who contribute to making their communities better places. We've got lots of those!!!
But today is the perfect day to announce this year's Chiltern Rangers' Volunteer of the Year....
A man who has transformed before our very eyes! From shy beginnings to becoming a key volunteer and an asset to our team... Liam you are brilliant and we thank you for all of... your help and we hope you continue volunteering with us! #IVD2018 #ResilientCommunities
Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Communities Red Kite Community Housing Bucks Free Press Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Marsh and Micklefield Big Local LWSW BUCKS Community Impact Bucks
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What an awesome day with the Chiltern Rangers at their Easter Egg Hunt on Fungess Meadow nature reserve. You guys do a great job teaching children about the world we live in. Thank you so much for allowing us to see what you do & learn some of your knowledge.

What a fantastic job Chiltern Rangers did at the service road behind Herbert road, this is at the back of my house and i can now see well into the woods now its been cleared.

We experienced the Easter Egg Hunt and Marshmallow toasting today at the nature reserve behind the Rye and were absolutely blown away. All put on absolutely free including mini easter eggs, marshmallows to toast on open fires with great rangers teaching safety but also allowing the children to participate, tea and coffee and hot chocolate to help yourselves to and an array of biscuits too. Really was over and above what I expected. Thank you

They're great! Just like the countryside

Thanks for a fabulous bioblitz. The kids and I had a really amazing mini adventure camping out less than 2 miles from home and finding things we hadn’t discovered before. Looking forward to the next one �

Thank you all for a fun packed 14 hours of the Bioblitz! We didn’t arrive till late last night, but the children have had the opportunity to track bats �, catch bugs, trap wood mice �, identify moths and differentiate bird song. They have come away exhausted, but with a raft of new knowledge and a couple of new friends who we look forward to meeting again.

Such great aims: to work to benefit communities and wildlife.



The Rangers are such lovely people; their welcoming, relaxed, caring nature helps groups of volunteers get lots of work done for the community and wildlife (which, in turn benefits the community again).



At the same time volunteers get: health benefits by getting some vitamin D and exercise catered to an individual's ability, education about ecosystems and local history, some new friends, satisfaction in having worked towards a good cause that will benefit many others, and some some beautiful sights (like the amazing autumn colours and bird song in summer).

My boys have loved the past two days. Doing Art work, digging and planting.Have come home buzzing on both days. Thankyou Chiltern Rangers. They can't wait till the next one x

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It was a pleasure to have worked with these guys on several occasions! They do a great job and definitely recommend volunteering if you get a chance, you will have fun and you will make a difference. I'll look forward to working with them again soon.

I've worked with dozens of rangers. They are easily the best

Had a lovely morning making badges, bug houses, pond dipping, planting some new flowers and to top it all off toasting some yummy marshmallows. Well done Chiltern Rangers.

Had a lovely afternoon with my grandson and daughter planting seeds,plants and toasting marshmallows he loved it and cant wait to come back.You are all doing a lovely job well done .

Great bunch of superheroes doing an amazing job for the local environment.



I spent a few sessions volunteering for Chiltern Rangers and was warmly welcomed with lots of tea, training and tools to have a great experience.



Can't wait to volunteer again!

Chiltern Rangers and the Woodland Trust organised a brilliant bat walk in Penn woods. Really interesting and child friendly.