R4 The Long View - Ash Dieback

[coppiceer]

The current edition of the Long View(Radio 4 - 27/11/2012 21:30) has a discussion drawing comparisons between the outbreaks of DED in the 1920's and 1970's with the current outbreak of Chalara fraxinea. I found it quite informative.

 

BBC - Radio 4 The Long View - Homepage

 

Also a link to a discussion regarding the possibilites of propagating resistant Ash specimens:

 

SWOG • View topic - Ash disease - some hope

[Paul Jenks]

A nice bit of history too.

[David Humphries]

The last part was recorded here at Hampstead last week.

Liked how they linked the current chalara outbreak to the historical ded outbreaks.

 

Its interesting and a little sad to reflect on seeing just the remnant hedgerow elm regeneration here, where there must once have been mighty big elms only a few short decades ago.

I must have just missed them (in relative terms) being one of the dominant landscape trees here, having worked at the site nearly thirty years.

 

There's now just one remnant big elm left on the Heath extension in the map shot below.

 

 

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