"After 25 years, the decision to site the National Forest amid derelict coal and quarry workings has borne spectacular fruit... "Twenty-five years ago, the Midlands villages of Moira, Donisthorpe and Overseal overlooked a gruesome landscape. The communities were surrounded by opencast mines, old clay quarries, spoil heaps, derelict coal workings, polluted waterways and all the other ecological wreckage of heavy industry. "The air smelt and tasted unpleasant and the land was poisoned. There … Continue reading
How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life
