David Humphries
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Good find Rob, thanks for posting shame that it appeared that very little of that £50k mentioned in the report (generated in part due to the tree) seemed to have been spent on the trees management. .
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That's really encouraging to hear Guy, thanks for sharing your experience .
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'Some' being the optimum word there Tony. 'Tree care professional' is how we as an industry should aspire to be seen by our stakeholders.........in my opinion of course. .
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Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction
David Humphries replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
this became more evident when cross sectioned we also took clinometer readings before & during the dismantle to keep an eye on the lean and to see if it changed when the canopy was removed. Whether the 1% reduction in lean was due to the above or variations in the reading....that's something for the technocrats can debate. the lean certainly looked a lot stronger than when we last inspected this stretch of road a few months ago. was a keen spot by a colleague that alerted us to it. .
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Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction
David Humphries replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
Heavily leaning oak that looked to be subsiding toward the target of a cycle track & an A road. The canopy showed a noticeable gap away from its neighbouring trees. There was a basal wound on the side but appeared solid via testing with a sounding hammer and looked to be just bark and cambial damage. We decided to go grab the small mewp rather than climb-dismantle as it couldn't be straight felled. Agent-Arb in the bucket .
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thanks .
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thanks for adding to the story Caleb do you happen to know what time of the day the two sections failed ? .
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I believe so Tobias .
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It's already in motion Kevin & is a significant aim of the VETree project. http://www.vetree.eu/en/page/3/The+project Once the trainers (across the 5 partner European countries) have attended the 3 day workshops they will be in a position to spread the knowledge of vet tree management techniques and 'advise' stakeholder groups such as land owners (forestry, agriculture, private) and just as importantly, hopefully influence policy and steer working parties at an individual tree level. Ends this year but aims to leave a legacy and infrastructure/network for people to create and maintain management plans for trees like the Frithsden beech..........but like all things, it will take focus and commitment by individual people to actually make things happen and continue the movement toward better Veteran tree awareness and management. .
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so why is it not happening Tony? was it discussed at the ATF today? .
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must have a very wide array of differing fungal colonies in among that huge heap of woody matter. would need a pretty big saw to deck it .
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Still a 'very' imposing tree in itself Tom Looks to have some fantastic body language and great battle scars. What's the setting? .
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A good number I'd imagine. Glad I got the opportunity less than a year before it failed. .
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Chair of the ATF (Brian Muelaner) talking about the notable beeches of Frithsden The beech pollard can be seen from 3:25 onwards .
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I've not been to see the tree since the failure marco. .
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I think it's a shame that it wasn't reduced, propped & fenced off Sean. Iconic tree that had a focus on it, but seemingly nothing really done to manage it. .
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couple of Nick's decay shots...... .
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Meripilus all over the root plate but the failure is down to the white rot of Ganoderma (possibly applanatum/lipsiense) & although not seen, I would also suspect Kretzscmaria deusta being present. .
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Nick took a visit over to the site on Wednesday and found that it had entirely collapsed. .
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Sadly got the news yesterday that this fine ancient beech pollard at the Ashridge estate is no more. .
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How so Tony? Martin has a number of records from Windsor during June. British Fungi - record details .
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Not that I'm aware of Lee. I think there would have been whole detached leaflets and debris if there had been a wind event. FR not ruling out abiotic but they are still undecided on the culprit at this stage. .
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Hard to be of great help with that image tbh Ben Do you have other shots, perhaps a canopy context shot and also a shot of the top surface of the leaf ? What was its growing environment like? Possible that the beech may be deficient of necessary micronutrients like manganese or iron. But i'm not entirely convinced of that. .
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Pretty much just an aesthetic issue. .
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I don't imagine these are fungi, they are more than likely scale insects Probably Pulvinaria sp, like P. acericola or P. regalis Adjacent trees of other genus? .
