Argyll Rainforest Restoration - Squad Supervisor

[Knoydart]

13 minutes ago, AHPP said:

happy to take it for whatever's fashionable this week.

 

Rhododendron infestation into temperate rainforest habitat is the end for that woodland and all of the globally rare epiphyte diversity that lives there. This is not fashionable or part of a trend and the insinuation  that it is shows a complete lack of understanding about the natural world. It is critical work to save native woodland and the associated rainforest biodiversity in this part of the world. It's a race against the clock and hugely important work. Get on board or get out of way.

Edited yesterday at 20:59 by Knoydart

[AHPP]

If it's important or necessary, it'll happen without forcibly allocated money.

 

We're not going to agree. Get in the sea.

[peds]

4 minutes ago, AHPP said:

If it's important or necessary, it'll happen without forcibly allocated money.

 

This is tptally, absolutely, 100%, simply not true.

 

That's not what money is for mate, you know that. Money is for hookers and blow, not for saving endangered mosses, unless someone forces that cash into the moss fund. 

[Knoydart]

3 minutes ago, AHPP said:

If it's important or necessary, it'll happen without forcibly allocated money.

 

Funded until 2026. Rhodie still needs cutting after 2026. With the right person, this stands on it's own. That's the whole point and exactly why I thought of arbtalk as an amazing place to advertise this job. Generally active arb and foresters, many with business nouse alongside ecologically astute. Shame that what I had hoped would be a positive place to advertise, led to such outright negativity from folk like yourself. Hopefully there are some switched on, hard working cutters checking this thread and we get some applications even with this quite frankly misdirected and poorly thought through negativity.

[monkeybusiness]

I can’t believe the ridiculous responses to an employment advert - pretty disgusting behaviour IMO. 

[peds]

On the bright side, more replies keeps the thread at the top of the pile, and healthy debate is always a good thing 👍

 

Anyway, I think more tax monies should be spent on the eradication of invasive species. There's f*ckloads of nonsense that can be trimmed from a budget before this pittance. 

[AHPP]

4 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

I can’t believe the ridiculous responses to an employment advert - pretty disgusting behaviour IMO. 

 

I can't believe that over half what I pay for a tank of fuel goes to the government to spend on things that I have no say in. That's disgusting.

[peds]

You get a say, of course you do. You can protest, riot, vote, assassinate, sabotage... petition... 

 

If you don't want some fella to get a few quid to help tackle a genuine ecological problem, start a petition. 

[Knoydart]

20 minutes ago, peds said:

On the bright side, more replies keeps the thread at the top of the pile, and healthy debate is always a good thing 👍

 

Yes debate is fine and good to keep the thread up the list. Just seems an odd place to hang that particular argument. I understand that the polarisation ou there jn the landowner/land management sectors is real. I work with and have to try and navigate around it daily, but broadly speaking, even those real world individuals that bandy around phrases like subsidy junkies etc... dont object to job creation and view it as a good use of public money. Particularly if it is seed fuding to get something developed and operating on it's own feet. 

 

Like I said earlier, the negativity is misguided.

 

20 minutes ago, peds said:

 

Anyway, I think more tax monies should be spent on the eradication of invasive species. There's f*ckloads of nonsense that can be trimmed from a budget before this pittance. 

 

It's a big challenge that the public purse will not muster. Est. 500 million to effectively clear rhodo from Scotlands rainforest.

Edited yesterday at 21:37 by Knoydart

[tree-fancier123]

my first step would be trying to suss out how to best kill a mature plant with chemicals, maybe eco plugs drilled in near the base? 

Would it not be quicker to leave them standing until dead and go through and poison as many as funds permit, so they don't set anymore seed?

Edit - always best to google before posting a question, seems it's not the silver bullet I was imagining

Efficacy of Ecoplugs on RhododendronControl is likely to be as good as, but no better than, conventional sprays of liquid glyphosate, and in both cases, repeat visits to control regrowth will almost certainly still be required.

 

 

Edited yesterday at 21:51 by tree-fancier123