Stihl announces CLA lumberjack chainsaw event
21 May 2012 | by Matthew Appleby
STIHL has launched the inaugural British Championship of the STIHL Timbersports series.
Competition was as intense as ever at this year's show.
STIHL has launched the inaugural British Championship of the STIHL Timbersports series.
The Arboricultural Association's annual Arb Show, now in its 14th year, will benefit from a new site, feature a varied workshop programme and offer a range of new product launches.
Barcham Trees will host their third 'Big Barn' conference on 20 June with Dr Ed Gilman as the main speaker. More than 400 delegates have booked to attend.
The ICF National Conference ICFhas seen the launch of two films intended to combat the threat to Britain's woodlands posed by Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae.
Newly re-elected Mayor of London Boris Johnson has appointed an environment adviser and promised more green spaces and trees.
Some 19 regions are no longer officially in drought following the wettest April on record and continuing rainfall in May.
A team of professional arborists will be selectively spraying a selection of oak trees in Kew Gardens known to have been previously affected by oak processionary moth (OPM).
Plumpton College in East Sussex has cancelled its open day on Saturday 12 May 2012 because car parking fields are too wet.
The Forestry Commission has advised people in west and south London, and Pangbourne in Berkshire, not to touch oak processionary caterpillars, which are emerging on oak trees in these areas.



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