Say "Trees!"

This site is dedicated to a scientific experiment, run by Professor Martin Haigh at Oxford Brookes University, to find the best way of creating a self-sustaining environment on former coal spoil heaps. Over the last 20 years volunteers have been planted trees on a slope near Varteg in South Wales, and these same people go back each year to measure the trees, check on how they're growing and how the landscape is developing.

Notes to the volunteers:

I'm sure Martin/Heather could write something better than the above! I just need a couple of paragraphs explaining to the lay person what the project is about.

Please have a look at the Diary, Gallery, Trees and Links sections. If you have info you can send me, please do so! I can also set up a user account which will allow you to edit information about the different plots and write/edit diary entries.

If you want to send me photos please try to make sure they are no bigger than 800 x 600 pixels. Otherwise they'll start to clog up my broadband connection!

Thanks,

Sharon