The Woodland Trust ash dieback campaign.... thoughts?

[Billhook]

As far as I can gather the variety gene pool of Ash is much wider than Elm; so it's a very different beast.

 

To me, it's far too little and far too late.... it's like peeing into these regular gale force winds we keep getting!

 

Cheers, steve

 

In the 1970s we had a lot of mature Elms here which dominated the landscape and everyone laments the fact they have been wiped out by DED. But in fact there are just as many as there ever were here, alive and well in the hedgerows until they are about 10 to 15 years old when they fall to the disease again.

 

They are waiting for the beetle or the fungus to mutate or die out, and they have plenty of time on their hands, maybe beyond our Great Grandchildren's life times.

 

I agree with SteveA and from what little I know I understand that the Ash do not fall to the dieback for some time and there will always be a stock of native Ash waiting for an opportunity to step in when the disease mutates.

 

These processes may happen with all our native trees, Oak, Beech, Lime etc and work in cycles of hundreds of years and beyond our records

[bolthole]

Whenever an organisation like this undertakes a 'campaign' there's always a certain use of language which in it's efforts to garner support, somewhat misses the point.

 

I think the point's been well made on here about the causes of the disease; I think we'd be better off putting more effort into a long term solution (like creating and managing a lot more native woodland) rather than going along with the notion that one is somehow helping by 'clicking' and 'getting involved online'.

 

Admittedly I am pretty jaded by the whole involvment of marketing and advertsing people.

[SteveA]

Whenever an organisation like this undertakes a 'campaign' there's always a certain use of language which in it's efforts to garner support, somewhat misses the point.

 

I think the point's been well made on here about the causes of the disease; I think we'd be better off putting more effort into a long term solution (like creating and managing a lot more native woodland) rather than going along with the notion that one is somehow helping by 'clicking' and 'getting involved online'.

 

Admittedly I am pretty jaded by the whole involvment of marketing and advertsing people.

 

You hit the froe on the head there mate!.... the way it's all so neatly presented and setup to be easy to donate makes me queasy.

 

Yay to planting more trees.... but the current #ashdieback message makes me wanna

cheers, steve