A Walk in the Woods – Mirehouse Estate, Keswick Cumbria
North of England – Regional Group Meeting. The North of England Region is trialling a new approach to regional meetings by hosting local and low key events during the weekend, and hopefully more often. The first meeting was held on Saturday 4th March at Mirehouse Estate near Keswick, with kind support of the current and […]
Interview with Craig Hinton, Enspec Environment & Risk, Australia
Speaker day 2: The Role of Tree Population Data in Promoting Tree Benefits Cathy Frossard, Marketing Consultant on the Trees, People and Built Environment 3 Conference, interviews Craig Hinton on his views of the upcoming conference. There are those who maintain that, now most of us live in towns and cities, our deep cultural relationship […]
Trees in the city
Why Trees in Cities are Phenomenal Investments in Urban Infrastructure The tree in front of my residence in Halifax is an American elm of about ninety years of age. In an interview with a reporter last year I referred to it as a veritable workhorse. The reporter looked puzzled, so I explained. The tree enhances […]
TPBE3 Chair Alan Simson Reflects on Some of the Aims of the Conference
I think it was Ambrose Bierce who said a long time ago that “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don’t know”. Our relationship with trees, woodland, and landscape goes back a very long way but sometimes we forget this and assume that the whole subject area of […]
Why not Manage our Forests to be Better than Nature?
Humans have long sought suitable models or representations to guide natural resource management, including forestry. These models represent the values of societies and the relationships of societies to nature. For example, the “close-to-nature” forestry movement in central Europe is an attempt to emulate nature with forestry or silvicultural treatments. This is not an uncommon approach, […]
Tree benefits; the missing part of the street tree cost benefit analysis equation
Sheffield was widely hailed as one of Europe’s greenest cities, but it is rapidly gaining an international reputation as the place where they are felling street trees on an industrial scale. Local democracy seems to be unravelling before an international audience as the wishes of local communities are ignored and healthy trees with decades of […]
2016: A Year in Forestry and Arboriculture
Throughout 2016 the ICF blog has showcased member opinions on the maelstrom of political and other changes and what they have meant for forestry and arboriculture. As the year draws to a close, ICF Executive Director Shireen Chambers FICFor looks back on the most important events and their impact on the sector. The winter of […]
Tree Species and Provenance Choice in High-Value Conservation Sites – Keith Kirby FICFor
Tree Species and Provenance Choice in High-Value Conservation Sites Where is it important that only local material is planted in woods important for nature conservation and where might a wider range of provenances and species be accepted, given future changes in environment and the threat from tree diseases? Keith Kirby FICFor looks at a simple […]
The Challenges Our Woodlands Face Today and Tomorrow – John Weir MICFor
The Challenges Our Woodlands Face Today and Tomorrow John Weir MICFor asks that we consider new approaches to increasing the long-term resilience of our woodlands. Our woodlands have been managed successfully during the last century under the assumption that the environment they are growing in will be relatively stable. This key assumption is now proven […]
City Trees for Beauty, Health and Economic Value – Dr Kathleen Wolf
Trees, People, and the Built Environment II: pre-conference article Kathleen L. Wolf, Ph.D., Research Social Scientist; College of the Environment, University of Washington (Seattle, U.S.A.) Insightful people have long noted not only the beauty of trees, but also the thoughts, emotions, and inspirations that emerge when one encounters large trees. Newton was but one […]