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Britain's native Oak under threat
Last Updated on Saturday, 12 February 2011 09:55 Written by WH Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:00
by Dr Sandra Denman, Forest Research Scientist
"What if Britain's most iconic and important broadleaf tree, the native Oak was to be reduced to a shadow of its current level?
Surely it is unthinkable that we could be without them?"
-An article about about Acute Oak Decline (AOD)-
Click here to dowload the pdf article
Forest Research (Forestry Commission) has published some guidelines about managing AOD:
Read more about Acute Oak Decline and download "Forestry Commission Practice Note 15": Forest Research Acute Oak Decline
This is a selection of what media and newspapers have written or broadcasted about the dangers and spread of Acute Oak Decline (AOD), and the urgent need for research and funding:
BBC West Midlands - Inside Out: Acute Oak Decline at Attingham Park, by Clive Dunn.
The article includes a 1:35 min video
Podcast BBC Radio 4 A Point of View, with Simon Schama: 'The tree that shaped Britain' [click the link to read the transcript in BBC News Magazine or click here to listen to the podcast in BBC iPlayer 07/05/2010]
Forestry Commisssion's Practice Note FCPN015 'Managing Acute Oak Decline', by Sandra Denman, Susan Kirk and Joan Webber
The Independent Disease threatens to fell Britain's historic oak trees
The Independent Now Britain's oaks face killer disease
BBC News Oak disease 'threatens landscape'
The Telegraph Mysterious new disease threatens oak trees
The Guardian New oak tree disease could 'change British landscape', experts warn
Mirror British woodlands hit by new killer disease
AOL News Oak disease 'could alter landscape'
Herald 24 Deadly disease confirmed in Hoddesdon woodland
Anyone can plant a tree...
Last Updated on Thursday, 18 August 2011 10:24 Written by WH Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:00
by Lewis Scott
Leader article from the latest Woodland Heritage Journal (2010)
Will we be investing in the vital management and aftercare of the saplings to ensure that they grow into high quality timber trees with tall clean stems for future generations to inherit?
Geraint Richards - New WH Trustee
Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 13:22 Written by WH Sunday, 09 August 2009 22:50
Geraint Richards grew up in the Chiltern Hills, very near to the Forestry Commission’s District Office. His love for woodlands and forests was inspired, surrounded as he was, by the famous Chiltern Beechwoods. In 1988 he went to study at university in Bangor, North Wales and after four years (which included a year-out with the Forestry Commission in Thetford) he graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Forestry. He immediately went to work in Kent and East Sussex for the Forestry Commission, but in 1995 applied for the job of Head Forester with the Duchy of Cornwall. (The interviews happened to take place whilst he was on honeymoon in Cornwall – which his wife will not let him forget!) In 1996 he started work with the Duchy and now has overall responsibility for the management of the Duchy’s woodlands, which extend from the Isles of Scilly to Herefordshire, and amount to some 4,500 acres (1,825 hectares). Early on, and before everyone else, he took the Duchy’s woods into FSC certification and adopted a continuous cover/close-to-nature approach to management. He has been involved with all sorts of organisations and initiatives to do with trees, woodlands and forests and more especially, issues close to His Royal Highness’ heart – such as high-quality silviculture, utilising and ‘adding-value’ to home-grown timber, and education/training. All of which is fully in line with the aims and objectives of Woodland Heritage.
“We are indeed fortunate to be able to call upon his expertise and experience, which has been most evident in his involvement with our ‘From Woodland to Workshop’ Courses, along with our other dedicated Tutors. Geraint is a valuable addition to our committed team and we are delighted to welcome him as a Trustee. Coming from a Welsh mother, Cornish father and supporting the Welsh boys in red in rugby, Geraint would not forgive me if I did not mention his Celtic loyalties too, which are reflected in the names of his five children.”
Peter Goodwin, Chairman of Trustees
Journal 2009 is available to download
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:44 Written by WH Saturday, 08 August 2009 10:19
- Click here to download a copy;
- Click here to visit the Journal Downloads page;
CCFG Scientific Meeting
Last Updated on Sunday, 02 August 2009 15:18 Written by WH Sunday, 02 August 2009 14:44
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