national trust tree surveys??

[bigpants]

National Trust To Launch Survey On Tree Avenues — Tree Contractors Directory.

Qoute :"Members of staff as well volunteers from the general public will be trained in the collection of the data required, which will focus on such areas as the number and age of trees, species, spacing and their health."

 

Members of the public deciding on tree health?????? any opinions??

what training will they be given?

[Charlieh]

near here most the NT guys have VTA, and this year a lot are doing PTI as well

[showoffsummer]

I started off my "tree career"<-- sorry dont know how else to word it! volunteering at cragside(one of the biggest national trust sites) I went round with the head forester doing piccus tests around the grounds and loved it, at the time I had very little knowledge but the head forester did all the work basically and I think what was meant by the article was that, (thats what I thought of it). basically all I did was tap in the nails and tap the hammer under his supervision and he would show me the results and ive never leant so much!

 

cheers ciaran glyde

[ScottF]

I think this is extremely ill-advised. How can they possibly think that training a load of "members of the public" to do tree inspections is a good idea? This can only be bad, not only for tree safety, but for the management that is likely to result.

 

I've had 20 years of members of the public telling me on one hand that a tree is dangerous and needs to be cut down and there's nothing wrong with it, or me having to point out dead trees hanging over roads and car parks to indifferent landowners.

 

By way of analogy, if you had 500 bridges that needed inspecting would you train up members of the public to do the work or would you hire a team of trained, experienced and insured engineers to do it?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

its worked for the ATF for 5 years. stop moaning

[ScottF]

It's called trying to promote professionalism.

 

And I wouldn't tolerate someone taking that tone to my face.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It's called trying to promote professionalism.

 

And I wouldn't tolerate someone taking that tone to my face.

 

There wasnt any tone in it, pros want money and this wont work, its a not for profit excersise is it not?

 

Ie, like the ATF was, now records of avenues are being sought, for the are of great historic and ecological and even amentiy value.

 

Pulling in volunteers and limiting it to pros who wont ask a fee?

 

as for you not tolerating my tone, best i duck by the sounds of it you moody bitch!

 

Chill out scot, dont read into it.

[Mark Cattell]

its worked for the ATF for 5 years. stop moaning

 

The usual diplomatic response Mr Dryad....

 

Do you enjoy getting people's back up?

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The usual diplomatic response Mr Dryad....

 

Do you enjoy getting people's back up?

 

 

Im sure the MANY members of the NT volunteering crew who will be adding their "unprofessional" input to this gathering of information are even more offended than scot was!

[Beardie]

I bet it's all about that boy who got killed by a falling beech. National Trust was eventually found not to have been liable, but they want to show that they can tick the box for "Have Done Something About It".

 

However, I fear that this will be one of those occasions where they will be able to tick the box, but won't have really addressed the problem.