Neville Fay, Award for Continued Services to Arboriculture
This September Neville Fay was honoured with the prestigious Arboriculture Association’s 2009 Annual Award for Continued Services to Arboriculture.
The award was given in recognition of Neville’s efforts to raise the level of knowledge in arboriculture, specifically through the Treework Environmental Practice seminar and conference series. Through a philosophy of holistic arboriculture he has endeavoured to bring this perspective to tree safety and veteran tree management, recently focusing on the climate change debate to bring practical solutions through raising the national importance of trees and climate control.
In his acceptance speech at the conference dinner, Neville said that he shared the award with many friends and colleagues in arboriculture, who have inspired and supported him in his continued endeavours towards broadening practice to encompass holistic approaches to the soil, climate change, realistic attitudes towards tree risk management and long-term veteran tree care.
Neville said, “This award is as much an honour for me personally as it is for all my dedicated and inspiring friends and colleagues at Treework Environmental Practice and in the Ancient Tree Forum”.
Congratulations with this Award and keep going on.
best regards,
Frits Gielissen
Comment by F. Gielissen — 27 November 2009 @ 12:43 pm
Congratulations Nev! I cannot think of a more deserving person to receive this award. I have long admired Nev for his unwavering efforts to raise the science of arboriculture to a higher level. His early vision to organize seminars that would bring together arborists that other scientists developing innovative approaches to improving tree health have resulted in a very successful on-going seminar series that have greatly helped improve the art and science of arboriculture. Veteran tree management and retrenchment pruning are just two of several of his approaches that are now gaining prominence in the US and other countries. What Nev has accomplished with his innovative ideas while also managing and actively practicing at Treeworks Environmental Practice has been an inspiration to me, and I am sure to many arborists and others involved in various aspects of tree health.
Comment by Olaf Ribeiro — 15 December 2009 @ 5:51 am
How wonderful to hear about someone being recognised for their efforts to broaden and deepen understanding!!
Many congratulations, Nev!
Comment by Alan Rayner — 16 December 2009 @ 8:52 pm