How can our Veteran Trees be helped?

[Andy Collins]

There is much shouting every time one of us goes to work on a Vet tree, yet if there was a combined approach to build awareness, fund maintenance and monitor them surely this would help eliminate the "unnecessary" fells? Is there a database for veteran trees in this country? There is a always a great emphasis on saving the rain forest, or the jungles, or the trees of the PNW, but what of the trees on our very doorstep? Are they not important ecosystems at also need protection from....well from me?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

about time

[Albedo]

These things as Agg says tend to need a 'vehicle' to carry them. For example the original EU and global environmental legislation was based on military or arms agreements as the 'vehicle' was already in place for this type of thing.

 

Following this line of thinking I wonder if you could use an SSI type 'vehicle' for individual trees.

 

Just thinking aloud:001_smile:

[RobArb]

There is much shouting every time one of us goes to work on a Vet tree, yet if there was a combined approach to build awareness, fund maintenance and monitor them surely this would help eliminate the "unnecessary" fells? Is there a database for veteran trees in this country? There is a always a great emphasis on saving the rain forest, or the jungles, or the trees of the PNW, but what of the trees on our very doorstep? Are they not important ecosystems at also need protection from....well from me?

 

I'm sure the ATF has something like this on their website "the national tree hunt"

[agg221]

I'm sure the ATF has something like this on their website "the national tree hunt"

 

The Woodland Trust | Ancient Tree Hunt | The Veteran Trees Initiative

 

The links to the map and search facility are on the tabs at the top of the page. Note the text on this page - it indicates how it came into being.

 

Alec

[RobArb]

Thats the one:thumbup:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

The Woodland Trust | Ancient Tree Hunt | The Veteran Trees Initiative

 

The links to the map and search facility are on the tabs at the top of the page. Note the text on this page - it indicates how it came into being.

 

Alec

 

try here for the handbook:thumbup1:

 

Veteran Trees: A guide to good management - IN13

[David Humphries]

try here for the handbook:thumbup1:

 

Veteran Trees: A guide to good management - IN13

 

 

My understanding of this thread is that Andy is talking about the type of tree in Ross's beech thread.

 

With that in mind I see little in the vet tree management guide that would offer any advise on gaining funding for managing a tree like that.

 

Perhaps the below tract being the nearest thing of relevance possibly worth investigating.

 

• Heritage Lottery funding is a possibility for survey and historic landscape work.
  

 

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[Andy Collins]

I have the Helen Read book, I've had it for probably nearly 15years, and used it frequently. But David is right, time and again we are covering the same ground, discussing why this or that should or shouldn't be felled. So the ATF have a sort of system, so the Woodland Trust have theirs, but again this is all so disjointed. If there is some kind of funding out there to support a charitable cause that could pay for the veterans to have necessary monitoring, protection, and essential works doing then can this be addressed.

This isn't a "them and us" issue, this is something anyone and everyone involved in the world of trees can be involved in, at any level. Maybe an "Adopt a Veteran" idea or something?

As people involved so closely in Arb, with an (un)healthy interest in trees, is this something that we can do, locally, or even nationally?

[David Humphries]

. Maybe an "Adopt a Veteran" idea or something?

As people involved so closely in Arb, with an (un)healthy interest in trees, is this something that we can do, locally, or even nationally?

 

The Royal Parks have (or had) a program of 'Tree adoption' with a dozen or so 'special' trees at Kensington gardens/Hyde park

 

Money was raised by auction with the highest bidder adopting a tree with a plaque & an yearly update on how they were fairing. I think they had a big gala evening with Chris Packenham compairing

 

Tbh, I'm not sure if the moneys raised (fair few thousand £ per tree) went direct to the management of the individual trees or in to the general Royal Park coffers.

 

 

 

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