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Hi, I am in West Yorkshire and a friend would like to go somewhere there is a Siberian cedar growing... Any suggestions please. Thank you.

Hi, can anyone give some advice please on the correct legal way to deal with a situation? A tree survey ha identified a hazardous tree which needs to be felled immediately for safety reasons. However, there is an active birds nest in it - so it is illegal under the Wildlife & Countryside Act to do any tree works while birds are nesting there. It is not practical to fence off the hazardous tree until the birds have gone, because of its location next to residential properties. Any suggestions how to proceed please? Thank you

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Ahhhh but it could be a bluff / double bluff - people will not expect the same ones now!

The polyporous squamosus was fresh and clear to see what it was. The phellinus pomaceous (thanks! knew it started with a P) was relatively easy to work out. The innonotus hispidus was black, and the phaeolus s.. didn't look much like it did in the book.

Each sample was given with a piece of paper saying what species of tree it came off (latin name). We could use any resources we wanted - anything we had brought with us, and anything that Guy had (he had brought some books). I used the AA book and some of my own notes.

Out of interest, what were the four fungal examples?

 

Good luck with the outcome

 

 

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Thanks!

We had (excuse spellings, am doing this from memory) polyporous squamosis, phaeolus schweinitzii, inonotus hispidus and p(?) pomaceus.

No, no fomes this time. Bad luck! Mine were mostly lucky guesses, I was not confident in them all

Will try emailing for an early result, I am too nervous to phone.

Thank you! I ended up with a good key that I was happy with.

I got all 4 fungal identifications correct (yay!) and feel I did well on the theory paper. So it just depends how I did on my practical - not that confident - feel like I could practise and do better on a retake though :-)

No, not at all, he just asked "which one of you is Twigger?"

ha ha

Plus I said I was asking my peers ie doing research, and he was fine with that.

Thank you! Appreciate the help and the advice.

I also had to laugh this morning when I went back into the course and Guy knew I had been asking about this on here! :-)

Will report back how I get on.....

Thank you all very much! That is very helpful.

I am enjoying the course, want to do a good job in the assessment :-)

Thank you! I did try to search the forum in case it had come up before, but I couldn't find anything.

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone can give me input on how you define the age categories you put trees into when doing surveys please?

eg Young / Early mature / Semi mature / Mature / etc

How would you define those, would it be on the proportion of their expected life they have been alive? Or to do with their growing etc?

Thank you for any help!

PS also how would you define minor / moderate / major deadwood?

I am doing on the PTI course and it is our homework, so I thought the best method would be to ask my peers :-)

Brilliant thank you!

Hi all, my husband is thinking of doing his dissertation (for a wildlife and ecology degree) about standing or retained dead wood as an aid to improving the ecology of woodlands.

Can anyone recommend somewhere he could go and research into species present where dead wood is retained? Preferably not too far from where we live in West Yorkshire. Also are there still places where dead wood is cleared, so he could compare species present there?

Any help or info sources will be greatly appreciated, thank you. I have already given him the article from the Arb Assoc magazine that recently arrived.

that sounds amazing and I would like to send my husband to do it!!! do they take on new people? (the Christmas tree job)

Thank you all! Will investigate all these :-)

Thank you for all replies!

The library book is on my sister's ticket at the university where she works, out until December, hopefully the new one will be out by then? Or this one reprinted, or I will try the other (cheaper!) one in the meantime. Can't really afford the 2nd hand prices! Eek!

Hi,

I have a book from the library - The body language of trees by Claus Mattheck.

I just tried to buy my own copy and it is £130 used on Amazon - no longer available new.

Is there another way to get a copy cheaper? Or is there a newer book by him which covers the same things? He has written lots!

Thank you

Hi all,

Please could you recommend for me which is the best digital/electronic (?) clinometer to buy? And/or is there a good mobile phone app I can use please? For tree heights.

Thank you!

Yes, TKF. I saw something about the subsidence training today :-) and I am also wanting to do something on fungi!

Thanks for replies. Please could I have the name of a good app to send grid ref and/or send "help!" messages?

I don't think I would enjoy a naked client... depending what they looked like I suppose it might be ok!

Are there many women using this forum, does anyone know?

Hi, is anyone else on here doing the lantra basic tree survey training next Monday in Holmfirth? I am looking forward to it!

Hi, just wondered if there are any women on here that work alone on site? If so, do you feel vulnerable and what precautions do you take?

Same applies to men!

Thanks.

Hmmm sounds tricky! I have a past reading list and am planning to read as many as possible from it in advance of starting the course... Might leave it a year until I can commit a bit more time. No point starting and failing. Thanks for the info.

Hi, I am hoping to do the Level 4 at Tree Life soon - does anyone know if the workload is similar to the Level 6? Thanks.