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Students to plant trees on Durham Cathedral riverbanks

3:58pm Wednesday 29th January 2014 in News

STUDENTS will be helping to plant trees to improve the riverbanks near one of the regions best-loved landmarks.

Around 20 students will be getting their hands dirty next week as they plant trees near Durham Cathedral to improve the area for visitors and locals alike.

A team from East Durham Colleges Houghall Campus are volunteering to help out as part of their diploma in environmental conservation.

The volunteers will be working with the Cathedrals Woodlands and Riverbanks team, which works to improve the Cathedral owned parts of the peninsula for local people and visitors alike.

The project has won lottery funding to work with a team of regular volunteers and specialist teams to clear pathways, rebuild steps and plant new trees.

Gina Davies, from the team said: "We want to encourage more people to use the Woodland and Riverbanks surrounding the Cathedral as a space for relaxation and recreation, so we have been working hard to improve the walkways and the general area."

She added: "It is wonderful to be working with the students from Houghall because they are the conservationists of the future.

"They will no doubt be bringing plenty of fresh ideas and enthusiasm with them when they work with us and having 20 extra pairs of hands to plant trees is a huge help to me too."

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BEIJING/ANHUI (CNN) -- Zhou Xia walks briskly and with a certain purpose.

Carrying three small bags and layered up for the Beijing night, she weaves through traffic and over crowded pedestrian walkways. These are her first steps in a thousand-kilometer trip home to Anhui province.

Zhou is elated.

"I feel great, because I am going home," she says. "I only get home once a year or sometimes maybe twice. I want to go home to see my parents and children because I miss them."

Zhou came to Beijing for the money. She works two jobs as a maid and her husband gets odd jobs as a foreman. Together they earn around $1,200 a month to support their extended family.

"I don't really like Beijing," she says. Her life here is crowded and the work is constant. But opportunities to earn in China have drained from the countryside into the cities. Like many migrants, she is drawn to the capital simply for the money.

And migrants are everywhere in Beijing's sprawl. They clean homes, run fruit stands on wheeled carts, make crispy pancakes on gas fires for the breakfast rush, clean garbage off the streets and clip hedges by hand. They help run this city of more than 20 million.

During the Lunar New Year, they post handwritten signs on their shops, receive red "Hong Bao" envelops stuffed with bonuses, and leave in their millions. Many Beijingers don't notice them until they are gone.

Zhou joins the throngs milling outside Beijing Railway Station, an imposing Maoist and Soviet-style landmark. Everywhere migrants sit on stools and buckets surrounded by their luggage, puffing on cigarettes in the cold.

"I bet you haven't experienced anything like this before," says Zhou as we jam through the bottleneck to board. We're jammed right in the middle of giant swathe of humanity.

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Only about 20 people turned out Saturday for the San Mateo County Parks Departments meeting called to discuss its vegetation management plans at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Then the emails started coming in.

County Parks Director Marlene Finley says she has received many more emails expressing concern since that meeting. Thats in large part due to a letter sent out a day after the meeting by Moss Beach resident Aimee Luthringer, co-founder of AREA29, an advocacy group named for the water quality protection area that includes portions of the Coastside. The group keeps an eye on the health of the watershed, says co-founder Sabrina Brennan, and San Vicente Creek outfalls at the marine reserve.

Removing a large number of trees will complete the destruction of the areas charm, which the county started by replacing the quaint footpath with a wide road, according to an excerpt from the letter that makes reference to the Dardanelle Trail project. The letter goes on to warn readers that a chainsaw massacre will occur if they dont speak up.

The letter includes links to several county representatives email addresses, and those links enable readers to send a prewritten email. That email asks the county to delay the project until the natural resources manager position is filled, to extend the public comment period and clearly mark each tree that would be removed. Finley has received about 30 such emails since the letter was sent out.

Brennan says AREA29 wrote the letter because of a lack of clarity from the county on how many trees would be removed and how.

What the county said they were proposing to do was bring in heavy equipment and a contractor and rip out huge areas, (and) we dont support that kind of removal, Brennan said. We think it needs to be done carefully.

Such heavy equipment was used in the construction of the Dardanelle Trail, causing some residents to grow wary of the project and its impact on the sensitive environment.

Finley, who was not the parks director when the Dardanelle Trail construction was completed, said she heard such feedback at Saturdays meeting and welcomed the insight. She said the county is focusing on the Monterey cypress trees, which account for all but 31 of the groves 1,068 trees. An assessment of the trees revealed that 134 are dead, and a handful more are considered alive but beyond trimming. While she could not say exactly how many trees will be removed, Finley said most of the dead trees will be removed, as well as the eight or so live trees that are beyond trimming.

Its twofold: enhancing public safety and improving forest health by allowing more light into the forest, Finley said. The trees are really dense in there. Thats why we have the number of dead trees; they cant get any light.

Finley added that the measure was recommended as part of the reserves master plan, approved by the county Board of Supervisors in 2004.

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