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  1. David Humphries
    have been watching the decline of this white willow for a few years this google image shows it from two summers ago with a small percentage of die back in the upper crown and the gap is from earlier storm damage. .
  2. David Humphries
    the decay associated with daldinia .
  3. David Humphries
    also worth trying your local library, they may already have a copy or may be able to order it in. .
  4. David Humphries
    Costly doesn't have to be seen in monetary terms, this type of work could be accomplished voluntarily with the appropriate guidance. .
  5. David Humphries
    I think we should be encouraging more people to visit woodlands than currently do. I read that it's on the increase but firmly believe that we should always keep aspiring to open access and opportunity for urban dwellers to interact with woodland. Increasing peoples mental & physical well being. ofcourse this puts more pressure on the trees but that's where management comes in. Fencing, propping, bracing, retrenchment etc.... Costly but the trees win and the public win. .
  6. David Humphries
    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. .
  7. David Humphries
    Hello Guy interested in having a gander but I can't open the non member link? .
  8. David Humphries
    Perhaps the claiment (in this case Stagecoach) who are aware (through the inspection of their own tree populations and as such are or employ 'tree management experts') could advise their neighbours by way of a concerted publicity campaign of the defects/hazards that may be hidden under thick ivy growth. How hard would it really be for private tree owners to control the growth of ivy on trees in close proximity to targets like railways/roads etc..... There seems to be so little interpretation from the tree/forestry industry to the public regarding trees and their hazard potential. Although the Kew cedar fatality didn't involve ivy, we surely should be asking ourselves why the public do not understand the basic risks in relation to their own (and their property's) proximity to trees during inclement weather and what we are doing, or not doing, about this? .
  9. David Humphries
    Tom's a good lad, he's very punctual & not afraid to pitch in and get his hands dirty. He's got a good appetite for learning as he goes & is keen to progress in the industry. he had a wide variety of experience with us over the academic year short video here of his first real climb with us......... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3BzgrgG-1o&list=UUL-sm0tQbrnXZyqnrpGT_7w]Tom Plane - YouTube[/ame] feel free to give me a call/pm me if anyone wants a chat about his potential. David (07775703017)
  10. David Humphries
    what I believe to be Amanita strobiliformis here on the roots of pine or the birch .
  11. David Humphries
    little brother watching me watching fung...........am I being paranoid .
  12. David Humphries
    Phew, thought I was going to get Spanish Inquisition for a minute there
  13. David Humphries
    It's a B-road in the London Borough of Camden This one is a 30mph limit The control in place were a site specific risk assessment, tree work signs, cutting during gaps in the traffic flow & 2 on the ground managing pedestrians and cyclists. Also holding sections with a strop where required. .
  14. David Humphries
    Thanks, glad you got something from it. It's fundamental to share experience, i continue to learn so much from people who share theirs. .
  15. David Humphries
    A good shout, or even Arbtalks very own Fungi App. Both are useful resources that take up little space and are packed with awesome images .
  16. David Humphries
    Poplar leaf mining possibly by the larva of the poplar bent wing moth - Phyllocnistis unipunctella .
  17. David Humphries
    Reported elswhere... Kew cedar branch fatality found to be an accident by the inquest jury. BBC News - Erena Wilson Kew Gardens death: Branch fall 'an accident' .
  18. David Humphries
    They look to be a Coprinus species, perhaps Coprinus micaceus (although at this state they don't appear to show the identifying flecks of mica over the caps) If they are then they are a saprophytic species associated with dead/dysfunctional woody vloumes within that section of the roots. They are not the reason for the tree being in decline, there will be other factors involved. .
  19. David Humphries
    It started with Paul & Tony's comments within the NT Cedar thread........ http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/66693-200year-old-cedar-dorset-7.html .
  20. David Humphries
    Ha ! Philistine .
  21. David Humphries
    Blimey, Martin's been busy over night then .
  22. David Humphries
    They just sit on their steel foot plates......sheer dead weight gravity keeping them standing. I made sure that they were away from any land drains RAF were invited to quote a Chinook to lift them in, but the cost was prohibitive. They are enormous. .
  23. David Humphries
    103 records of P. pini according to the FRDBI http://www.fieldmycology.net/FRDBI/FRDBIrecord.asp?pg=1 .
  24. 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. .
  25. David Humphries
    a recent project at work we were involved in. spent the whole day on site lifting a few branches and making sure the root plates & trunks were not subject to unsolicited damage. very delicate operation to get 25 tonnes of Jurassic steel on to site .

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