Articles

Views from the SOW team and guest contributors.

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Soils & Biodiversity by Dr James Merryweather

16.06.2012

“Each shovel of soil holds more living things than all the human beings ever born.” Dr J Merryweather uncovers and explores the soil beneath ancient woodland…

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Tell me that I’m not alone? by Jonathan Hazell

13.06.2012

Jonathan Hazell is one of the foremost Arboriculturists in the UK and a public face for the industry (You may well recognise him from the Television, recently appearing on the BBC’s One show to talk about Dutch Elm Disease). He is a trustee of the Arboricultural Association.

Here he asks: ‘Tell me that I’m alone in becoming frustrated by bad practice in our everyday environment?’

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Unsolicited Tree Work – The Threat to Trees in the UK

08.06.2012

Lara Hurley writes… Fire Blight? Oak Processionary Moth? Dutch Elm Disease? No. It’s rogue traders, who probably pose the widest threat to non woodland trees and the quality of our urban environment today.

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Friends of Thetford Forest responds to RSPBs’ heathland restoration article

02.06.2012

Alan Spidy, on behalf od Friends of Thetford Forest, responds to the RSPB’s article on heathland restoration..

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FRIENDS OF HURN’S FORESTS – IN DEFENCE OF HURN’S PINE FORESTS AND THE FORESTRY COMMISSION

28.05.2012

So what’s wrong with well managed scots pine forest? It’s just another cycle of history, just as heathland is…

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Tree Savers – Save Rail Side Trees!

21.05.2012

Network Rail’s national tree clearance programme will destroy an area the size of the Forest of Dean. Tree Savers Whitstable Branch need your help!

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Forestry, the Poor Relation of Farming

17.05.2012

Raymond Henderson, Head of Bidwells Forestry Team, has highlighted some facts from Scotland which expose a severe disparity in funding, procedure and lobbying power, which are very useful as case study to further forestry in England at a time when it is ‘up for discussion.’

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Site Specific Land Management Planning

15.05.2012

Pip Howard outlines the vital importance, ecologically, socially and economically, of listening to the landscape and listening to communities when planning land use/management, by using the ancient and down right logical principle of ‘site specifics’.

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Harmony, A New Way of Looking at Our World. A film and book by Prince Charles, Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly

09.05.2012

Si Jakeman shares with us his thoughts on the new film and book, Harmony, from His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly.

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The Great British Elm Experiment – by The Conservation Foundation

04.05.2012

The Conservation Foundation tells us about their inspiring work to keep the beautiful Elm tree, almost wiped out by Dutch elm disease, a feature of our landscape

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Manifesto for a working landscape by Eddie Procter

20.04.2012

Landscapists of the world, unite and take over!

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More woodland and more heathland please! by the RSPB

19.04.2012

The RSPB adds it’s voice to the Heathland re-creation discussion “we don’t think the decision is heathland or woodland, we want more, better managed and better connected areas of both.”

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Flourishing trees, flourishing minds

16.04.2012

‘Flourishing trees, flourishing minds: nearby trees may improve mental wellbeing among housing association tenants’ highlights the vital importance of urban trees progressing into solid research the ideals of Ebenezer Howard and others. It is thus an incredibly timely reminder that we cannot afford to ignore our urban trees and their role in human society as a whole.

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Fungi-jewels in the arboreal crown

09.04.2012

Antony Croft’s inspiring & very beautiful article on the ‘true masters of woodland ecology’.. fungi..

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NPPF: The Treaty of Eland House

28.03.2012

The NPPF is a return to old school politics and good old Humphrey Appleby lingo (Although the referral to the wrong UN resolution on Sustainable Development is a major embarrassment).

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Deforestation in England to create heathland: is this what we want, or is there a better way?

21.03.2012

This is the second article in a series exploring the issues of heathland restoration by deforestation. This piece by the Save Our Sandlings Forest group…

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A Life in the Canopy by Arborist, Robin Grimes

14.03.2012

Robin Grimes is an Arborist, commonly known as a Tree Surgeon. Here Robin gives a succinct insight into his work…

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The Great BiG Earth DiG

13.03.2012

Is A day to inspire people on a local level to create a new space for growing their own fruit and vegetables on the first day of Spring, otherwise known as Equinox Day, 20th March

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Heathland re-creation: it’s time to talk. By Friends of Thetford Forest

02.03.2012

Alan Spidy of Friends of Thetford Forest, writes about their concerns of the clearing of woodland for heathland re-creation

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Using Soft Power to Protect Trees by Christopher Neilan

28.02.2012

Chris Neilan is well known for creating the CAVAT system that works out the monetary value of urban trees explains the need to engage communities to protect tree & increase tree planting in their areas…

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