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It is a very difficult decision and whatever is used to replace the felled trees will, obviously, take a long time to get to the size the Ash was offering. It saddens me that some of the decisions to fell will be based purely on the risk of litigation.

 

Thoughts on suitable replacement stock in the urban environment?

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Balls! I keep doin that! Went to a Grown in Britain thingy last year and thee was a company there encouraging growers etc to fell and sell all there good ash to them for export to the Far East ( they used what has happened in Denmark as an example of why we should fell early here i.e. Milled ash prices collapse and we're left with acres of rotting timber and dangerous trees ) but we then risk losin resistant stock. I live in Norfolk and we see it all over it's too late, the same with larch. I don't think there's a conspiracy this is just the result of **** bio-security in the uk and it won't get better until we start acting more like the US, Oz, NZ etc and tighten up! And yes the media over hyped it but it got people talkin!

 

 

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I think I'm definitely in the camp of not felling unnecessarily but I can see the arguments for not planting Ash in the urban environment. I still believe we're heading for a range of tree stock that's made up of about 4 species. It can't continue. Something needs to be done to find more stock that is suitable for the urban environment:

*pollution tolerant

*good aesthetics - either in fruit, bark, leaf or a combination of all

*strong

*not liable to branch drop

*minimal blossom/fruit drop

*good P&D resistance

*good tolerance of differing soil types

 

I don't think it's much to ask, really...:lol:

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