Volunteers met at Salters Sanctuary where John said that tasks for the morning was to plant two Alder trees at specified parts of the Sanctuary, expand one of the glades in the Hawthorn and to litter pick around the site. The two saplings were large enough to require a sack barrow to move them to each site. A hole was dug in one of the Hawthorn glades, the root bole inserted then the trunk secured with a slanting post and the base of the trunk protected by netting. This operation was repeated for the second tree in a grassy area alongside one of the paths. Another group sawed off the trunk at five foot high of three additional trees in another glade of the Hawthorn wood land then the branch debris added to the piles already there. The litter pickers worked their way through the Sanctuary picking up glass bottles, tin cans and other rubbish. . It was sad to see senseless vandalism by cutting down trees in one area where young people congregate. This was tidied up by the group and reported to the police.
