Last year saw the publication of two eagerly-awaited guides on managing tree risk.
How we assess the risk from trees matters because the consequences of getting it wrong can be both spectacular and devastating when a tree fails. Traditionally, arborists used their eyes and experience to work out what to cut off and what to leave. In retrospect, this was quite a hit and miss approach....
Planting a tree is easy. Getting it to survive, thrive and mature to deliver its full array of benefits is much trickier. We know that success rates of close to 100 per cent are possible because specialists such as Kew regularly achieve it, but the challenge is to make that aspiration a reality across...
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More than 535,000 people signed the 38 Degrees (www.38degrees.org.uk) petition to save our forests, forcing a humiliating coalition Government U-turn on selling off England's nationally owned woodlands (www.w2.defra.gov.uk). Caroline Spellman's apology to the House of Commons showed the collective power...
Historically, English tree management has been neatly divided along rural and urban lines.
If ever there was a word so overused that its real meaning was lost, it was "sustainability".
The Government's promise of a national tree planting campaign (http://programmeforgovernment.hmg.gov.uk) is a sound-bite of superficial nonsense.
Opportunities to make a significant impact with a relatively small effort are rare and should not be passed up. Planting big trees in car parks has the potential to kick-start our national climate adaption effort, yet the dominance of uninterrupted "black" in urban redevelopment proves that "green"...
As tree consultants in the planning sector, we deal with hundreds of developers and councils across the country.
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