By Bethany Rossiter Following the planting of 300 native trees at Penrose Stream at the end of January last year, further tree planting has taken place on the sides of the Cober Valley, near Helston. Over two days (Thursday 14th and Thursday 21st November 2019), 531 trees were planted on the streamside edge of…
By Bethany Rossiter Higher than normal temperatures experienced earlier this year, may have contributed to the return of blanket weed on parts of Loe Pool this summer. The largest area of this blanket weed has been observed in Carminowe Creek, with it blanketing the rocks on the lake bed, and growing up to 20m from…
By Bethany Rossiter On a typical wet and rainy winter’s day, National Trust Conservation Volunteers teamed up with Cornwall Wildlife Trust Wild Cober volunteers on January 31st, working very hard to plant 300 trees in an area of land at the bottom of a sloping field at Lower Lanner. The purpose of getting soaked to…
Possibly the starkest, and most disappointing, result of the 2015 ECON Fisheries Survey and Review of Loe Pool was that, for the first time in all the surveys that have been carried out on the Pool, there was no recording of a brown trout in Loe Pool. Although the survey does not provide incontrovertible evidence…
By Bethany Rossiter A very sunny Thursday 17th May played host to another successful ‘Loe Pool Make-a-Difference’ day, which saw groups of volunteers from Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s ‘Wild Cober’ group and Penrose volunteers, work together to help maintain the strapwort site on Carminowe Creek. This work, which has been funded by the Whitley Wildlife Conservation…
In December, Justin Whitehouse (National Trust) was interviewed by BBC Radio Cornwall about our recent efforts to restore natural flooding to the Willow Carr, woodland area, below Helston. The Willow Carr project will improve habitat for the benefit of local plant species and animals such as the otter. One element of the project involved laying…
On the 21st of April Helston Community College took off on a field trip to Loe Pool and RNAS Culdrose. This Year 9 trip was part of the PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) Healthy Living Project. The aim of the day was to encourage the 200 pupils to engage more often with their fantastic local…
This report details the results of the 2015 Loe Pool boat and grapnel survey, part on an ongoing programme of macrophyte monitoring undertaken on this lake since 1999. The Loe is currently eutrophic and in unfavourable condition. It fails to meet Natural England’s conservation objectives for the macrophyte community composition, macrophyte community structure and…
Since July, I’ve taken on the diverse and interesting role of the Catchment Sensitive Farming Officer for the West Cornwall Catchments which includes the River Cober catchment. My background as a Conservation Adviser for Natural England working across Cornwall has given me a good start in the new area of work. The main aim for…
The 28th of May 2015 was an extremely exciting day for Loe Pool Forum! After much organisation work by Tracey Hamston (Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust) and Laura Bailey (National Trust) the extremely rare Strapwort was re-planted to Loe Pool. We made a documentary film of the planting day, click here or on the image below…
Loe Pool Forum 