Yes, and what with the new draft policy guidance on nature conservation, it
looks increasingly legitimate to TPO a coppice stool for its wildlife value
notwithstanding the impact periodic coppicing will have on visual amenity.
Quoting John Hearne <John.Hearne@xxxxx.gov.uk>:
I, too, would be interested in any references. Quite coincidentally when
this thread started I was engaged in an interminable telephone
conversation
with a very teary lady whose neighbour had 'felled' an 'ancient'
hedgerow
goat willow. This lady had previously objected to the removal of the
tree
for development purposes and obtained a 'consultant's' report stating
the
stool was probably centuries old and very important. The neighbour then
cut
it down without following Conservation Area procedures.
John Hearne
New Forest District Council
Arboriculturist
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-----Original Message-----
From: Edmund Hopkins [mailto:Edmund.Hopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk]
Sent: 14 December 2004 07:57
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Re: Dating copice
I do recollect reading somewhere a paper on dating coppice stools but a
trawl through the library has failed to track it down. I'd say ask Keith
Kirby at English Nature is your best bet.
As Mark implied, the oldest coppice stools are lime, but ash can be very
long lived. Hazel is the junior but will probably have died from shading
in
the intervening 80 years so I suppose is not a species you are looking
at.
I wonder if Fiona's friend would post back if he/she comes up with some
references?
Quoting DCox@xxxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk:
On behalf of Fiona:
A colleague of mine who works with broadleafed woodlands and
woodland
grant
schemes is currently doing some work in a woodland which has in the
past been coppiced, possibly not for about 70/80 years but prior to
that on a fairly regular basis. Does anyone have any experience of
how
you can date the trees which have been coppiced, perhaps by the
root/tree base? Has any work been done on this sort of thing? Are
there rings to count in the root base??
Any ideas or references would be great.
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