PocketGIS ARB
Positioning Resources Ltd is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). Does this ring a bell? It’s a wet and windy day and you’re out surveying trying to make notes and mark up a topographic map on a soggy piece of paper and your pen won’t work. To make matters worse once back in the […]
TPOs: Improve your Reaction time and save more Trees
ezytreev is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). It’s early afternoon and you get the tip-off, it might be potential development land or perhaps a private garden with some prominent trees, but word is that the tree fellers are due in the morning. Your next move, and how fast you can make […]
Forestry Commission England’s Tree Health team
Forestry Commission England is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). Members of the Forestry Commission England’s (FCE) tree health team will once again be in attendance at the National Tree Officer’s Conference. Following the inaugural event last year, the team is very much looking forward to seeing what the conference has in store, […]
Sorbus takes Innovation to 2017 National Tree Officers Conference
Sorbus International Limited is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). Sorbus, based in Frome Somerset, is celebrating their tenth anniversary in 2017 and proud to be supporting the second National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). Sorbus offers a comprehensive range of specialist and HiTech products for arboriculture professionals including the well proven PICUS, IML […]
A green future with CityTree?
As a Tree Officer I spend a great deal of time advocating for urban trees and it is hard for me to hear that there is a new green product which claims to improve air quality more efficiently and cost effectively than trees. But Green City Solutions has done this with its new mossy installation […]
Get to Know Your Tree Officer!
GreenBlue Urban is a sponsor of the 2017 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). The themes of the National Tree Officers Conference really got us thinking here at GreenBlue Urban (GBU) Head Quarters. How do we support, and in some respects, ‘market’ urban trees and their fantastic custodians, the Tree Officers? Working effectively with politicians and communities […]
Stwopendous experiences
Theresa Reichlin from the University of Toronto and winner of the 2017 Prince of Wales Forest Leadership Award tells us about her work placement with 2017 Award Programme employer Pryor and Rickett Silviculture. She is a member of the Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada (CIF/IFC). I am now comfortable enough to not use my GPS when driving to […]
Norfolk Newbie
Reginald Eddye from Fleming College and winner of the 2017 Prince of Wales Forest Leadership Award tells us about his work placement with 2017 Award Programme employer AT Coombes. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada (CIF/IFC). I have completed my first month of my work placement at AT […]
Game of Thorns
Theresa Reichlin from the University of Toronto and winner of the 2017 Prince of Wales Forest Leadership Award tells us about her work placement with 2017 Award Programme employer Pryor and Rickett Silviculture. She is a member of the Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada (CIF/IFC). The five months between finding out about my […]
3 Magic I’s for Tree Officers
Chartered Arboriculturist Sharon Hosegood FICFor a Fellow of the Institute, owner at Sharon Hosegood Associates Ltd, highlights a few of the obstacles that tree officers face and the importance of supporting each other. “Money spent on trees and tree officers must be regarded as investment, not a cost.” – Associate member John Parker, Chair of the […]