2018 National Tree Officers Conference Programme Announced
The acclaimed National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC) programme is now live. The 2018 NTOC will have a broader reach than ever with presenters from across the UK and beyond with delegates hearing from a local authority officer, Lars Schultz-Christensen, working in Copenhagen, Denmark. The programme will cover a variety of subject areas as per below: […]
Working with tree officers
GreenBlue Urban is a sponsor of the 2018 National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC). Twenty-five years after our inception, GreenBlue Urban have developed solutions we are proud of but we don’t stop and stagnate! It is through our work with Arboriculturalists that we are truly able to understand the complexities of our most precious assets – trees. […]
Booking opens for the UK’s only dedicated Tree Officer Conference
The acclaimed National Tree Officers Conference will return to Telford, 6 November 2018. Last years’ outstanding event hosted more than 230 delegates from local authorities and private practice around the UK, who travelled to Telford last November. This is the only major conference dedicated to the needs of Tree Officers. More than 93% of last […]
National Clean Air Day
Chartered Forester Russell Horsey MICFor, Director at Goetre Villa Ltd, highlights how urban trees help make our towns and cities a cleaner place. As cities across the world look to tackle air pollution car free zones, congestion charging and the use of electric vehicles have all been proposed. In London there is now a suggestion […]
Shireen Chambers FICFor visits Burkina Faso with TreeAid
Shireen Chambers FICFor, ICF Executive Director, visited Burkina Faso in her capacity as Chair of TreeAid. Shireen reports on her visit. My first visit to west central Africa didn’t have a promising start, with a cancelled flight in snowbound Paris, but a few moments in Ouagadougou’s 38°C heat dispelled all memories of a European winter. […]
Maggie Wright shares her experience of presenting at the National Tree Officers Conference in 2017
Maggie Wright, Development Manager at London Borough of Sutton, tells us about her experience of presenting at the National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC) in 2017. Why did you decide to submit an abstract? A colleague in a neighbouring borough suggested it – he said it would be a good subject of interest to a wider […]
Sarah Kiss shares her experience of presenting at the National Tree Officers Conference in 2017
Sarah Kiss, Senior Tree Officer at Southampton City Council, tells us about her experience of presenting at the National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC) in 2017. Why did you decide to submit an abstract? I kind of got cornered in an NTOA conference call! I asked a question and someone said it would make a good […]
Greg Packman shares his experience of presenting at the National Tree Officers Conference in 2017
Greg Packman, Aboricultural Officer at The Royal Parks, tells us about his experience of presenting at the National Tree Officers Conference (NTOC) in 2017. Why did you decide to submit an abstract? It was originally suggested to me by a friend who attended the conference that I should consider doing this because I have built […]
Recent Fatality: Arboricultural Association response
Stewart Wardrop, Chief Executive Officer at the Arboricultural Association (AA), has stated the actions being taken by the AA to advise its membership, the wider arboricultural audience and relevant partner organisation of the tragic events relating to Mr Daniels death: Publish a summary of the events to their membership via a safety bulletin notice. This […]
Plant Health Centre launched
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has launched a new virtual Centre of Expertise for Plant Health during a visit to SASA this morning. Mr Ewing said: “Protecting Scotland from the environmental, economic and social consequences of plant pest and disease threats is increasingly challenging. That is why I am pleased to announce the creation of […]