{"id":551336,"date":"2026-04-26T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551336\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:20:08","slug":"peak-district-nursery-will-replace-trees-lost-to-ash-dieback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551336\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak District nursery will replace trees lost to ash dieback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ash dieback involves a type of fungus that is spread by air-borne spores from the leaves of the tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has spread across Europe and Felicity Stout, woodlands manager for the Peak District National Park Authority, said it was particularly noticeable in the Monsal Head area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The landscape already looks different,&#8221; she said. &#8220;As people drive around they will see many ash trees that are dead or are dying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In my role as woodland manager I have to oversee the felling of ash trees where there has been a risk of them falling onto our trails and roads,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That has been hard work because I don&#8217;t like cutting trees down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I am really excited because we have the opportunity now to restore these places where there have been ash trees &#8211; there are opportunities to make these landscapes more diverse and to actually make them better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ash dieback involves a type of fungus that is spread by air-borne spores from the leaves of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-551336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551336","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=551336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}