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Treework Environmental Practice is proud to announce that it has become an Associate Member of The Tree Council, the UK umbrella body for organisations concerned with tree care, planting and conservation. Amongst its many activities the Tree Council educates and engages people through National Tree Week and through heritage conservation initiatives such as Green Monument campaign for tree protection and the Hedge Tree campaigns.

Becoming an associate member of the Tree Council is a natural progression from our existing work with the National Tree Safety Group, Middlesex University (Decision and Risk Management Department), the Forestry Commission (on climate change adaptation) and the Trees and Design Action Group (conservation, design and planning for large canopy trees in cities).

The Tree Council recognises the fundamental role of trees in their contribution to the unique quality of the British landscape, to our towns and cities, being essential to our biodiversity heritage and to human well-being and survival

Through its association with Tree Council, Treework Environmental Practice wishes to contribute to good management practice, conservation and the celebration of trees. We hope that as an associate Member we will support the Tree Council in improving the awareness of the benefits of trees and to influence government policy and good professional practice.

As a company we pride ourselves on our innovation and we have invested in improving the awareness and understanding of the contribution that trees make to our environment, from the habitat that old trees provide to the ways in which large trees help to “climate proof” our urban environment.

Treework Environmental Practice hopes to support the Tree Council, whose strength lies in its influence and breadth of involvement, with a unique ability to promote co-operation between professionals and mobilise the tree sector to engage at a political level to affect policy.

About The Tree Council: http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/?q=about-us

After six years of promoting and applying the concept of tree statics as a method for assessing tree stability, Treework Environmental Practice are now proud to be the first company in the UK to purchase recently developed instruments in order to be able to offer a static load test and tree structural assessment (often referred to as the pulling test) in house, as part of an extensive and expanding range of arboricultural services. It is envisaged that Local Authorities, tree owners, land managers and arboricultural consultants will all see the potential offered by the static load test in the management of risks posed by the most valuable amenity and urban trees.

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Trees, Roots, Fungi, Soil (Part 2)

Towards a model of good soil practice for arboriculture
30th June 2009
Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BF

There is much to be gained from an effective dialogue between ecology and arboriculture if we are to reach a meaningful understanding of health and pathogenicity in relation to soil and roots.

Understanding the soil rooting environment should be the first port of call for all practitioners involved in tree care. Arboriculture to date has been poorly served by ‘science’ with regard to the soil. While there is common use of expensive trunk decay investigation devices, there is no available conventional toolkit for looking at the soil as a matter of routine.

Without a clear understanding of functioning soil ecology, there is no ecological basis for restoration, where tree stress implies problems with the soil. One consequence of this is a focus on pests and diseases, inputs and outputs and agrichemical solutions. This seminar explored these themes and the prospects for a meaningful dialogue between adherents to the inputs-outputs and eco-system models.

Speakers

• Professor David Cutler, President of the Linnean Society
  Welcome and Introduction

• Dr Alan Rayner
  The Dynamic Relationship of Trees and Fungi: Symbiosis and pathology
• Dr Ken Thompson, University of Sheffield
  If Trees Could Speak, What Would They Be Trying to Tell Us? An ecologist wonders why trees fail

• Dr Vinodh Krishnamurthy, Laverstoke Park
  An Organic Diagnostic Model: Testing soils, understanding functioning, managing deficiencies

• Dr Lee Klinger, Independent Scientist and Consultant, California
  Forest Vegetation and Soil Succession: The natural process of change

• Dr Olaf Ribeiro, Ribeiro Tree Evaluations Inc, Seattle
  Notes from a Soil Laboratory: Soil analysis first, treatment of trees second (pathogenicity and remediation)

• Prof Clive Edwards Ohio State University
  Understanding Earthworms: Indicators of soil quality and productivity and their use in bioremediation

• Dr Declan Barraclough, Environment Agency
  G. K. Chesterton and the Soil Problem: Is there a relation between soil properties and tree health?

Melton Borough Council shares contract with partner Councils. Inter-Authority collaboration will result in workforce and cost efficiency benefits.

Treework Environmental Practice is pleased to announce that they have been awarded a contract to provided Tree Risk and Condition Surveys for The Borough of Melton and District of Harborough. The contract is also available to other Local Authorities in Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.

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ecosulis ltd and Treework Environmental Practice today announced a partnership under which the companies will work together to provide both ecological and tree consultancy and contracting services across the whole of the UK.  As leaders in their fields the companies will partner to bring together their specialist technical expertise to strengthen their offering and increase efficiency which they can pass on to customers in terms of value for money.

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The are just a few places still available for the Treeworks Environmental Practice Seminar XIII - Trees, Roots, Fungi, Soil (Part 2), Towards a model of good soil practice for arboriculture on 30th June 2009 at the Linnean Society in London.

It should be noted that Professor Clive Edwards will be taking the place of Dr Mark Hodson as previously advertised. Professor Edwards is recognised as world authority on earthworms, his book The Ecology and Biology of Earthworms is going into its fourth edition.

To more details or to Book a Place online please visit Treeworks Environmental Practice Seminars Bookings

We would like to welcome our latest addition to the Treeworks Environmental Practice team, Will Gardner. Will previously worked as an Archaeological Surveyor and contributed to a number of projects for the Royal Commission and National Parks, identifying Archaeological sites and producing detailed landscape characterisation.

His role at Treeworks will focus on developing a new department, culminating the management of hardware and software for carrying out tree surveys as well as the ongoing testing and support of Treeworks Environmental Practice’s exciting new tree management software MyTrees. It is also anticipated that he will coordinate our expansion into mapping services.

The 13th Treeworks Environmental Practice Seminar is now available to book and is part 2 of Trees, Roots, Fungi, Soil taking place at the Linnean Society in London.

“There is much to be gained from an effective dialogue between ecology and arboriculture if we are to reach a meaningful understanding of health and pathogenicity in relation to soil and roots”

This event is held for ecologists, foresters, arboriculturists, soil scientists, mycologists and all those with a broad interest in trees and soil ecology.

To book immediately visit our bookings website

UPDATE: This vacancy has now been filled.

A vacancy has recently opened up to work with Treework Environmental Practice based in Bristol. This is an opportunity to work and develop a new department in one of the UK’s leading tree consultancy companies.

The role consists of the management of hardware and software for carrying out tree surveys, plotting of trees and other features to assist in the production of reports and plans.

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Dates, details and venues to be confirmed.

Treework Environmental Practice is proud to be working with the Arboricultural Association and the Institute of Chartered Foresters, and with Barrell Tree Consultancy over the climate change series. We are also grateful to the Forestry Commission and Barcham Trees for their sponsorship. We are now seeking sponsors for the 2009-2010 programme.

Lynne Boddy	L to R: Lee Klinger, Richard Bargett, John Adams

Our proposed topics for 2009-10 are outlined below. Some of these build on themes we started to explore in 2007-08. Others are new, inspired by colleagues or innovative studies, and have been introduced because we believe they speak to the interests and concerns of the tree and conservation world.

Trees: the key to climate-proofing our cities (Part 2)
This builds on the successful 2008 conference (Part 1), which established the scientific basis and importance of urban climate control and the role trees should play in this, bringing together the range of disciplines necessary to climate proof our cities. We learned we must not ignore our clear responsibilities to do this, as the risks from procrastinating will affect the current generation. The time has now come to bring together those who influence government and policy-makers to develop an effective framework, the National Canopy Initiative, that will urgently translate theory into practice.

Trees: survival and conflict resolution
July 2008’s Arboricultural Journal’s article describing how the control of trees that provide human livelihood has implications for survival and political participation.
In Israel and Palestine, the olive tree symbolises both the potential for reconciliation and the means to control livelihoods. In arid Africa, where trees mean life, experience is that engagement with communities and understanding native wisdom about trees, supports economic and social independence. This seminar will look at examples where trees mean more than just amenity and have come to influence the fundamentals of social processes.

Trees, ecofunction and wellbeing: planning for health through understanding the biochemistry of trees
Exploring the role of trees in bioplanning, and drawing on first nation peoples and lost knowledge, this event will look at the design of urban and rural landscapes according to medicinal, nutritional and herbicidal properties. If trees can help reduce the incidence of cancer and asthma, knowledge of species and their biochemistry will be important in deciding which trees to plant in locations where people are vulnerable. Speakers will explain the chemical effects of trees on the environment and how to understand their synergistic effects.

Calling the utility companies to account: making good damage done to trees, is there a case for a ‘tree wind fall’ tax?
Since the early 1990s, works done by utility companies have greatly affected tree roots and the health and condition of urban forests and highway trees. While the companies have made enormous profits from digging up roads and roots to provide their services, municipal arborists and tree managers have to manage the consequences. When trees fail, some causing physical harm, it is virtually impossible to pursue the causal link. The long-term effects from tree decline and loss are wide-ranging, affecting human health, wellbeing and climate. The damage is inexorable, hidden and persistent. This event intends to examine the real costs to society and how reparations might come about.

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