Wilder Melbury & the Melbury Valley - The Story so Far

Date/Time

17 October 2024
10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Location

Melbury Valley (NT),Compton Abbas Road, Nr Compton Abbas Airfield, Dorset, SP5 5AP, South West

A walk and talk exploring the stunning Melbury Valley and looking at the National Trust’s plans for the site.

On this walk and talk, with National Trust Countryside Manager for North & West Dorset Leo Henley Lock, and North Dorset Area Ranger Clive Whitbourn, we will discuss the journey so far in how we manage the beautiful Melbury Valley – including our current Woodland Management Plan, ambition for creating wood pasture, and how we are looking at landscape scale options in partnership with our tenant farmer to explore solutions for the biodiversity and carbon challenges of the future.

This will be a circular walk that will include a mixture of woodland tracks, rides, glades, and steep downland, with undulating, challenging terrain.

It will cover:

Adapting or responding to climate change
Addressing the crisis in nature
Adopting natural processes on a landscape scale

This event is kindly organised by the National Trust.

Please bring a packed lunch, drinks and snacks, please wear stout footwear and appropriate outdoor clothing.

Parking is available, but limited, so please car share where possible. Unfortunately the location is not on a known bus route. There are no toilet facilities on site.

Parking and meeting point at: ///starfish.stage.tablets

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