Elm Disease around Inverness.

[PeteB]

Up here for a few days with the Black Isle Show and amazed and saddened to see the change over the last few years with the march of DED. I got used to seeing small patches of sapling type trees with DED in The Midlands and North England, but up here, there are some tidy sticks that have it. I had the pleasure some 30 years ago of telling the last big tree in the Parish of Sutton Bonington, the last of 97 huge trees, that my family had out. So seeing some big sticks is sort of reminiscent of the 60's, 70's and early 80's in other parts and will not have been experienced by many tree people today, certainly, many mills will not have had round timber like it! In fact, the number of mills has declined as round timber is not as available any more in the same quantity or cost.

[scbk]

Yes big dead elms everywhere, most of it goes for firewood. But is that a bad thing, considering how much saw mill quality softwood gets incinerated by balcas, just to make a few watts of electricity so someone can sit infront of a telly watching love island. Renewable innit.

[scbk]

Did hear of someone locally sending a couple loads of good elm logs down south to England on an artic though.

 

 

Ps will be off to the Black Isle Show soon......

[Rough Hewn]

Big Elm logs???
Send em south, they sell well. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

[Rough Hewn]

Wasn't moving infected timber around one reason why DED  spread  as quick as it did. So many elms going into the mills down south resulted in low prices. Answer for a better price, send them north along with the fungi and beetles.
 
If you are a nursery owner and see ash infected with dieback what do you do. You ignore it and sell the trees spreading the disease nationwide.
 
If you have an order for UK grown juniper and your order is short of a few plants what do you do. You import plants infected with Phytophthora austrocedri and pretend they're UK grown thus spreading the disease throughout the country.
 
If you have an order for UK grown oak and you can't fulfill your order what do you do. You import trees from Holland infested with OPM  and claim they came from the UK thus spreading the pest throughout the UK.
 
At some point we'll learn.

Mill it in situ, then strip the bark off the boards and burn it.
[emoji106]
That sounds bad with the nurseries.
[emoji51]