In the years since Arwen and Corrie a number of other storm events have rocked the North East.<\/p>\n
Mr Wardle said the trust now has to contend with the effects of climate change-related weather.<\/p>\n
He said: “It’s not like it was like it happened and we can just make it better and move on. <\/p>\n
“It’s like we do a bit and then something else comes along and has another go at us.”<\/p>\n
The Storm Appeal and Dedicate a Tree campaigns were also used to protect the rare and endemic Arran Whitebeam at Glen Rosa on Arran.<\/p>\n
This proved important in spring 2025 when thousands of trees in Glen Rosa were lost to a wildfire.<\/p>\n
Mr Wardle said: “Now we’re getting to a situation where a storm comes along in the winter, they push the trees over. <\/p>\n
“That’s fuel that’s lying on the ground and then we’re having a summer event that’s very, very late this year, very, very warm and dry and then the wildfire risk goes up.”<\/p>\n
Thanks to the added threat of climate change-related weather the trust is continuing its fundraising to helkp it cope with the demands of extreme conditions.<\/p>\n
Mr Wardle said: “Although the original storm appeal was to do with Arwen and Corrie we’ve had continuing storms, and these put a financial pressure on us constantly because we don’t have endless resources.<\/p>\n
“So we have to respond to it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the years since Arwen and Corrie a number of other storm events have rocked the North East.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-329365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}