The National Trust, working with Northumberland National Park Authority, has placed protective netting to form a cage over the stump of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree to safeguard its natural regrowth. Visitors have been leaving stones, tokens, and other tributes on and around the stump as a way of honouring its memory since it was illegally felled in September 2023. While both organisations understand and appreciate this sentiment, they ask that people refrain from trying to climb onto the protec