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Excellent opportunity to join the estates team at Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 1RN Applicant needs to have good knowledge of maintaining woodlands, grasslands and experience in working in a small team. 5 day, 40 hour working week. Salary £15,465 For application form and job description please contact Tim Lower, Estates Manager: E-mail [email protected] THE BISC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER Closing date for applications Monday 19 October 2015

Hello, I need your help for my university project. This is my graph for ash (blue) and sycamore (red) and the density of their seedlings at 0 - 20 m from the seed source. I need to find which species shows the greatest reduction in density as the distance from the seed source increases. Thanks for taking the time to look, Answers on a postcard.

Hello, I need your help for my university project. This is my graph for ash (blue) and sycamore (red) and the density of their seedlings at 0 - 20 m from the seed source. I need to find which species shows the greatest reduction in density as the distance from the seed source increases. Thanks for taking the time to look, Answers on a postcard.

No worries. Yeah getting on good, back in Sussex at the end of May, we'll have to catch up over a pint. have you tried arbjobs? Arbjobs.com | find Arb jobs / Tree work

Whether you love it or hate it... you can drink it! Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus The sap contains sugar and can be used as a drink or be concentrated into a syrup by boiling off the water. The syrup is used as a sweetener on many foods. It can be harvested in late winter but is not produced in economic quantities. About 25 grams of sugar is obtained from a litre of the sap. The sap can also be used to make a wine. The flow is best on warm sunny days following a frost. The best sap production comes from cold-winter areas with continental climates. The keys of the developing seeds have a sweet exudation on them and this is often sucked by children. The leaves can be wrapped round food such as buns when baking them and they impart a sweet flavour. hahaha Thats probably the only time you'll ever be able to tell that joke and for it to be so relevant.

So I know times are hard, and all these arboricultural activities build up a heck of an apatite. So how about eating on the job... or eating the job:laugh1: Il start us off with a few trees to eat, just incase your sandwiches are looking a bit bare. Then hopefully you guys might know of some other edible trees. *DISCLAIMER* - I can not take any responsibility if you die on the spot/vomit/fill your pants... etc. If you chose to eat anything you see here it is your own choice and you must be sure of what you are eating and how it should be prepared. p.s I got all this from the pfaf site so blame them. Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) Leaves - raw or cooked. They can be a little bit bitter, especially if not very young, and have a mucilaginous texture (yummy). They make a nice addition to a mixed salad. Immature fruits, used just after they are formed, can be eaten raw. An aromatic, unusual flavour, leaving the mouth feeling fresh and the breath smelling pleasant (for any tree surgeons out there with a case of halitosis ). Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis) Young shoots - raw. Young male catkins - raw or cooked. Used as a flavouring. Immature female cones - cooked. The central portion, when roasted, is sweet and syrupy. Inner bark - raw or cooked. It can be dried, ground into a powder and then used as a thickener in soups etc or added to cereals when making bread. The inner bark was usually harvested in the spring, though it was also sometimes taken in the summer. An emergency food. Seed - raw. The seed is rich in fats and has a pleasant slightly resinous flavour but is too small and fiddly to be worthwhile unless you are desperate. A refreshing tea, rich in vitamin C, can be made from the young shoot tips. A gum obtained from the bark is hardened in cold water and then used for chewing. It should be aged for 3 days or more before using it. The best gum is obtained from the southern side of the tree. Tulip Tree (Tulipifera liriodendron) The root is used as a lemon-like flavouring in spruce beer, where it also serves to correct the bitterness of the beer. The bark of the root and branches have a pleasant rather pungent scent Elderberry (sambucus nigra) Fruit - raw or cooked. The flavour of the raw fruit is not acceptable to many tastes (tastes like a badgers arse then), though when cooked it makes delicious jams, preserves, pies and so forth. It can be used fresh or dried, the dried fruit being less bitter. The fruit is used to add flavour and colour to preserves, jams, pies, sauces, chutneys etc, it is also often used to make wine. Some caution is advised, see the notes bellow. The leaves and stems are poisonous. The fruit of many species has been known to cause stomach upsets to some people. Any toxin the fruit might contain is liable to be of very low toxicity and is destroyed when the fruit is cooked. . Flowers - raw or cooked. They can also be dried for later use. The flowers are crisp and somewhat juicy, they have an aromatic smell and flavour and are delicious raw as a refreshing snack on a summers day. The flowers are used to add a muscatel flavour to stewed fruits, jellies and jams (especially gooseberry jam). They are often used to make a sparkling wine. A sweet tea is made from the dried flowers.

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I have worked with Sam a few times. His work is always neat, fast, efficient and safe, A great bloke to have on your team. Highly recommended. Guy.

alright rob, that is made by a man Joc Hare he does some awesome chainsaw carving and stuff. Joc Hares website | Home of Logjam

HCR, I was planning on alternate and random planting. Yeah dougie sounds like a good idea, not too sure how much it will like the wind though, but would the fact it’s mixed with the sitka make it a bit more wind firm? On foot, Lodge pole is a no go, there are already some forests too close for comfort that are riddled with the red bandit. Highland, Yeah it’s for the forest plan. That could be great with birch planted through sitka sounds like it would tick all the boxes and keeps UKWAS happy chappys too. So from your help, The real nasty areas will be planted with a SS & DB mix, More shelterd areas SS & DF mix with high DF ratio. … Unless someone has something to say about it? Thanks very much for your help, great to hear your ideas.

Hello Gents, Do you have any recommendations for a good secondary species I could plant alongside sitka spruce on a clearfell site? The only catch is; it yields a good amount of usable timber, tolerates climate change predictions, and grows at a high elevation on exposed sites in North Wales? Or have I just invented a dream tree? Thanks very muchly, Lucas.

I know that Julian Evans and other well informed forestry professionals will be gathering tomorrow for a emergency meeting to discus what options we have to deal with the Chalara spread. So hopefully we will have more specific info on what we can do and whats going to be done. Worrying times.