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My recollection is, that during production of the guidance the AA had a rep on the technical panel, may have been Giles Biddle (I stand to be corrected here...as always.) His name is certainly given credit Further I think the guidance was produced prior to the ICF offering 'Chartered Arboriculturist' status. That's interesting. When did they start offering the status? Hope this reply helps...if only a little It does, thank you very much

thank you, and it twas a fine autumn scene to have seen

edit: last 3 of a familiar looking small fungi only found in this case growing within the rings of larger mushies. Any pointers on species?[/quote

found in a very wet paddock with two young oak. The larger brown fungi were just past their best with caps and flesh becoming soggy, fibrous stems and brown spores on my finger. Shame the leaf is more in focus than the shroom in the close up! last 3 of a familiar looking small fungi only found in this case brown within the rings of larger mushies. Any pointers on species?

I notice nhbc 4.2 recommends using registered consultants but makes no mention of the ICF. I am curious as to why the arboricultural charter gets no mention in a document produced by an influential group such as nhbc? Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask and its none of my business, in which case please ignore me!

fantastic stuff Mr Fox

May I ask why you expect hispidus? I came across a sorbus failure earlier this year with what looks like very similar decay. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=47770 the brackets shown appeared so soon after failure I expect they are the primary cause of decay, rather than secondarily utilizing dead/decayed wood; like your adusta (I think) are.

any reply from those in the know?

As in Rowan, Sorbus aucuparia? Have they been confirmed, very worrying if so; I didn't think other genus were affected...

best of luck! sounds promising :thumbup:

loving the first one

good advice

its called colour splash fx, I think the full version is only a couple of quid. But I'm a tight git....

I was so impressed with your colour splashing I had a quick play myself. I hope you don't mind this being here, wasn't sure where else to post and felt it doesn't warrant its own thread! Presumably the paid app would allow greater zoom and detailing...

Thanks but I was PM'd 15mins before you! Thanks for that Jon Sorted ta Is that any relation to iPads etc? How completely free is it?

http://www.dropbox.com Its a free (or paid if you want more storage) service to remotely save documents photos etc. You can install it on your laptop pc and smartphone etc, and files will be available from all devices. It also serves as a remote backup. I think its what people mean when they talk about 'cloud services'.

I am going to sign up to dropbox and it seems if someone refers me we both get an extra 500mb free. So the first person to post a referral link I can use will get a bonus and some good karma!

an impressive fasciation

Recent effects have led to me wondering about invasive species and there negative impact on our native species. The obvious things like Himalayan balsa and Japanese knotweed are easy to see as they are rather 'in your face'. But what what about invasive fungi? In particular I am curious about the effect the proliferation of P. cyanescens may have had on biodiversity in the New Forest. Bring so prolific it must be impacting on the range of fungi which were already resident, so what of species who are to some extent dependent on the 'original' fungal species? Has any research been done? I expect the introduction of the blueleg brownie from America has been active there long enough now to see some shift in other species numbers. I have Googled it but drawn a blank. Perhaps no one cares about what they can't see under their nose, or above their head!

Does anyone know of any ash specific fungi, (or other ecology)? I seem to remember Gerritt J Keizer (and his tree species specific ecosystem, TSSE) stating F excelsior associated with generalistic endomycohizal microfungi; does this mean it has no TSSE? Obviously there is the ash bark beetle, does that utilise other species in a pinch? Does the TSSE refer only to fungi? Where's Gerritt when he's needed! I miss him Is C fraxinea known to affect other trees, or just ash? All of the Fraxinus genus? I wonder how much of the dead wood saproxylic species gap might be filled if enough infected ash trees are left in-situ? (Did anyone get the recently published biodiversity in deadwood book, any pearls of wisdom to share?) In my experience the decay and hollowing by Innonotus hispidus in ash is prime woodpecker nesting sites, would hispidus have the same decay and emergence patterns in a dead ash; or does the tree need to be living? I don't recall seeing it fruit from a dead ash before... I suppose even in just stump form ash wood seems favored by stag and other beetle grubs. I'm just trying to see a silver lining to this great loss besides an increase in felling jobs and large firewood stores! Sorry for the rambling post, thoughts on a postcard please...

Certainly tricky! What sort of management plan would you set for this tree (based on just these pics, which is obviously limiting) given the weight and size of trunk alone near the road/house. I think I would be quite uncomfortable with this one... A form of fibre bucking, from the weight of the tree bearing down on a dwindling cylinder of sound wood. See Matthecks 'wrinkly socks'. Do you get Kretz in the USA!

I have tapatalk on android, when replying there is a camera button, just press it, choose your pic and upload... button | \/ ...upload to 'this forum' not 'tapatalk hosted'. good luck!

I don't think so... pics?

hmm, obviously there are means of appealing against a tpo, but can you appeal against a decision NOT to serve a tpo? I'll have to have a look, unless someone already knows...

These look good