Amelanchier
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That's an absolutley fantastic idea. I will shamelessly copy it and credit you briefly before pretending for all time that it was my own. I may even post the picture.
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Its tenuous but a guy I used to work with used to shout 'heads' when chucking bits down. If there was a bit of woodland nearby, and he couldn't make the chuck to the chipper, he would bin it down into the woodland shouting 'habitat'...
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The Sloth - the way newbies branch walk by hanging under the branch (and when I say newbies I happily include myself in the past tense).
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Spotted this in the AA newsletter and thought it may be of use to people putting together method statements for arb work. Its free to download from the AA website at:- http://www.trees.org.uk/publications.php Thoughts???
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Ha! I could do my own thread of moaning residents. It'd be bigger than the tree pics thread after a week. Some of them are even moaning about trees!
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David - forget it. Don't sweat the small stuff mate. Just let the pointlessness of it all wash over you. My heart sinks when I walk up a driveway and the lawn is immaculate, the rose beds are bare cultivated soil and the brickweave has been swept...
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I agree. His claim lies with the tenant not you John. However, I would imagine he considers your insurance company a softer touch than dragging his tenant through the courts. Best of luck with the fool.
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You need to be looking at Mynors - the Law of Trees and Hedgerows (parts of which are available through Google Books) and perusing the UKTC forums. Essentially your question is asking about what is reasonable to fulfil the landowners duty of care in the first instance and the possibility of negligence in the second.
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Spyderco. Can't be beat!!
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Tends to jam up on a main line esp. when wet with small diameter cord. Great on a lanyard mostly because its can be tied very compactly - before the Cinch/Art positioner I used a really compact distel so that when lanyarding in around small diameter timber the knot wasn't hiding round the back.
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Manky Laetiporus seems to fit! There are so many things you subconciously pick up on when you see something like that which can't be conveyed by the internet... (yet! )
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Looks like a loose distel to me...
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Here's a deformed Ganoderma spp. on a Beech (sorry phone cam shot). What a mess! I'm thinking Nectria coccinea var. faginata + Agrobacterium tumefaciens with a dash of Ganoderma that seems to have succumbed to the same process?!?!? In close up, the pore surfaces of the gano are obvious and parts of the stem have a nice dusting of cocoa powder!! I dunno.
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G. resinacium? Ignore the looks - go with the other ID features. What's known on the host in the area? Decay strategy? Any evidence of the type of rot? Spore colour? Take a slice, does it have tubes? What colour? Long short?? What colour flesh? Does the upper surface have a crust? Does it melt in a flame? Aroma? Old fruiting bodies? Is it perennial? Fungal sporophores can get infected by bacteria / viruses / nematodes / gall flies and moths. All of which can cause deformation. I'll put some shots up of a very odd Ganoderma adspersum/applantum I have when I get a chance.
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Nah, the spec was to leave the stump for habitat... Good honest ecoarb me!
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Welcome Alex. Good luck with the hunting... Though may I make one small suggestion? A username that starts with the word 'Idiot' is perhaps not the best first impression!
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Just got ours at the same local dig-your-own place that we always go to. Any tree = £5. Some people make life so hard for themselves, shuffling off up the track with shovels and mattocks. Can't beat a silky step cut for sheer laziness...
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Not far off... Current thinking is that certain clones of Platanus x hispanica have a genetic propensity to forming weak unions. See attached FC Pathology Note 7. Problems _of_Plane_Trees_Pathology_Note_07.pdf
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Or you could just let the natives adapt to any climatic changes just like they did in the medieval warm period... On the definition of native - its currently based on the trees that naturally colonised the country after the last glacial maximum approx 11500 years ago. Mainly though its a cultural thing (just listen to the shiver in the rabid old ladies voice when she talks about 'foreign' trees!). Consider this; if we entered an ice age tomorrow and glaciers flattened all the countries trees. Would you still call English Oak native even if it didn't naturally re-appear???
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Nice MD, Those galls (we call them nail galls) are quite common round this way. Mostly on Lime (Tilia spp. ) caused by Eriophyes tiliae. I'd say that host was what we would call Sycamore (Acer psuedoplatanus), which would make the gall mite Aceria macrorhynchus ; is that right??
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Oh nothing new - just annoying. Would it be cynical of me to think that it only got binned because it won't draw votes?
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In my experience, a lot of these schemes are non-starters because the people at the top making the policies don't have a clear understanding of the financial implications of tree management - basically they're under the assumption that you plant the tree/s, smile for the camera and win lots of awards... Forget about post planting maintenance, beating up, thinning, habitat. Also the term 'neglected' concerns me. Who says? Does a hands off zero management policy equal neglect? Does a woodland have to produce timber to become useful??
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Just heard on the news that the proposed Heritage Protection Bill will be amongst those scrapped to allow time and effort for the Govt. to work on the economy. This was the bill that various groups were pushing to include ancient trees as Green Monuments - major setback for the cause. All because a butterfly flapped its chequebook...
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Fair dinkum - cheers Chris
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MOD Surplus - Parachute???? Nice one btw
