Frithsden Beech

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony everyone at the training was highly qualified at some key aspect of tree mgt coming into the May course

But all benefited from widening their concept of "the job".

 

Small group work was most productive interaction

A lot to learn from each other

Cultures can be like echo chambers

So new and outside technology is harder to hear

 

But those walls came down at the training--great stuff :thumbsup:

 

I wasnt being negative, more sarcastic at the reality of the "training" side of life, no one puts their hand in their pocket more on a personal level to learn, see find and do.

 

Its hard to keep funding this stuff

[Andrew McEwan]

What d'you mean Tony, surely monitoring a fallen tree and organising a celebration of it's life is what you'd spend your budget on, rather than any works to prolong an amazing tree's life. If that berkotoday report is correct what a classic load of NT drivel.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

What d'you mean Tony, surely monitoring a fallen tree and organising a celebration of it's life is what you'd spend your budget on, rather than any works to prolong an amazing tree's life. If that berkotoday report is correct what a classic load of NT drivel.

 

 

what i love best is being ignored, then piping up loudly, only to be told to take a less "confrontational approach":lol:

 

in other words shut up on all levels

[David Humphries]

Whilst we were there last year we witnessed one act of ignorance that had two protagonists.

 

The three (apparently regular) scramblers who paid absolutely no attention to the damage they were causing to the roots of the veteran pollard and possibly more significantly the site management which could have taken an relatively easy and inexpensive course of action of installing a barrier fence around the root plate.

 

 

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[Stephen Blair]

Leaf mould and motocrossers, that's the best kind of playing, ripping through bogy areas and spinning over roots, bliss!!

Let the big old trees fall over and take up fly fishing or buy a canal boat grandpa

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Ha !

 

Philistine

 

 

 

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[treeseer]

what i love best is being ignored, then piping up loudly, only to be told to take a less "confrontational approach":lol:

 

in other words shut up on all levels

 

Yes, we must pay deference to the dominant, don't rock the boat...

 

Not.

 

The UK seems even more class-conscious than the US, in terms of having letters after one's name and so on.

[difflock]

Gentlemen, why the fuss?

A time to live and a time to die.

The natural life cycle of all living things.

Why attempt to deny the process?

Men playing at being God perhaps?

Marcus

[David Humphries]

Gentlemen, why the fuss?

A time to live and a time to die.

The natural life cycle of all living things.

Why attempt to deny the process?

Men playing at being God perhaps?

Marcus

 

An interesting and worthy question Marcus

 

there's a number of reasons as to why, I believe.

 

Continuity of habitat to the immediate locality possibly being the main reason.

A tree of that vast age will have very delicate & vunerable ecological associations that quite probably won't survive without a host of that age.

Once these trees are no longer a functioning standing habitat environment (not forgetting the saproxylic worth to decomposers) the associated species become seriously threatened.

 

Cultural association of pollards & the historical land use to that specific site is something that is worthy of maintaining as an educational resource.

 

Did you see it in the flesh? the sheer majesty of the asthetics were soul lifting.

 

it was also a visitor attraction, less people will be inclined to journey to the woodland now that one of its main gems is gone.

 

 

 

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[difflock]

it was also a visitor attraction, less people will be inclined to journey to the woodland now that one of its main gems is gone.

 

Surely that should be considered a "positive".

If "we" are truely concerned for the welfare of the woods and trees?

A conundrum I appreciate.

M