Ash Die back cutting, Mid Devon

[wicklamulla]

Ash removals are starting in Mid Devon at the end of next week.  It's literally 4 miles down the hill from me at Bickleigh where Chalara was brought into Devon on root stock from over seas. 60 tree are coming out to begin with.  be interesting to see where this goes in the future.

 

It was on BBC Radio Devon the other day, the interview starts at 1hr 17secs      http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05s14t0

[Matthew Storrs]

Yeah was listening to that with interest- let’s hope ash doesn’t follow in the footsteps of elm and larch.

[Jimbo 76]

I'd like to hope that Ash doesn't go the way of Elm. 

But in Surrey we are doing a lot of Ash removal. Some sites 80% thin to be restocked with hazel with the hope of natural resistance. Others like next week clear fell.

This weeks site rather worryingly has signs of die back in the re-gen.

 

Fingers crossed for the best.

James.

[Alex O]

Hopefully we won’t get hit as hard as what Denmark have it they reckon it was somewhere between 60-90% of there Ash has been lost. Haven’t heard about this one up the road in bickleigh though.

[wicklamulla]

2 hours ago, Alex O said:

Hopefully we won’t get hit as hard as what Denmark have it they reckon it was somewhere between 60-90% of there Ash has been lost. Haven’t heard about this one up the road in bickleigh though.

 

Ace Arb from Exmuff are the crew taking these Ash out.

 

 

[chrisjpainter]

yeah, it's not looking so clever right now. I work for my Wildlife Trust reserve and we're taking out the worst hit trees and the trees in public access areas (safety concerns) but we're not clearing it. partly because we have so many and partly to allow the possibility of resistance to materialise. 

 

I will say that a friend of mine who's doing his PhD in ash dieback isn't quite as pessimistic as most of the media seem to be. It's unlikely to be as bad as the elm loss and resistance if not immunity is being identified. Fingers crossed

[Alex O]

 
Ace Arb from Exmuff are the crew taking these Ash out.
 
 

Ah good another local firm undertaking the work [emoji849]

[difflock]

One of the few times I let rip into an "Expert" was when he identified Ash Dieback in  couple of scraggly saplings in a car park.

An unneeded fuss was made about their removal, which I gladly subbed out to a very decent Arb firm.

We met on site on the day.

He was all "Ho ho ho" is this not wonderful the vital important work I am doing,

until I suggested it was most likely not Ash die-back,

which notion was rapidly and v firmly supported by the Arb professional present.

He then attempted to say that he would have to inspect my privately planted, on my own ground, Ash trees because they could be smitten, as a tongue in cheek threat response to my questioning his judgement.

I  had mentioned my Ash trees to attempt to explain why I might know a bit about the disease, having done some homework, i.e. read through & digested(some of) the 1/2" thick document the Council were supplied with in the early days. 

Which was when I let rip.

Useless self important bastard, &, of course, on the tax payers payroll

Marcus

Edited January 26, 2018 by difflock

[wicklamulla]

48 minutes ago, Alex O said:

Ah good another local firm undertaking the work

well they are literally 30-35 mins away from the cutting site so yes i consider them to be classed as local.

[Alex O]

Would seem that we both have a Bickleigh near to us.