Ah, so that’s why the contractors for HS2 are scraping up piles of
soil to relocate the ancient woodland to a new home.
So simple!
Kind regards,
Paul Barton
MSc, BSc (Hons), TechCert (ArborA), MArborA Registered Consultant of
the Arboricultural Association
Director | Barton Hyett Associates Ltd
Website: www.barton-hyett.co.uk <https://barton-hyett.co.uk/>
Tel: 01386 XXXXXX
Mobile: 07765 XXXXXX
Barn 2, Oxpens Farm, Yanworth, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL54 3QE
WE ARE CONTINUING TO OPERATE DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS, BUT ARE
TAKING PRECAUTIONS. YOU CAN READ ABOUT THEM HERE <
https://barton-hyett.co.uk/2020/04/06/bhas-covid-19-working-protocol/>.
Company Reg No: 7110670 Registered in England and Wales.
A copy of our GDPR Privacy Notice can be found on our website by
clicking on this link <
http://barton-hyett.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Barton-Hyett-Assocites-Ltd_GDPR-Privacy-Notice.pdf>.
<https://barton-hyett.co.uk/privacy-policy/>
On 9 Feb 2021, at 14:33, Jim Quaife <jq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk> wrote:
I'm sure that I've posted this before but in the 70s the FC
excavated a
cubic metre (literally a cube) from a sitka plantation to count the
number of organisms present, microscopic and otherwise. They gave up at a
million.
AW is as much to do with the soil as trees and one cannot plant an
AW,
but one can plant a woodland which has the potential to become one.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: uktc-request@xxxxxx.tree-care.info [mailto:
uktc-request@xxxxxx.tree-care.info] On Behalf Of
oldoaktree@xxxxxxxxx.net
Sent: 09 February 2021 13:16
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: RE: How long does an ancient woodland take to develop?
Thanks for all of your replies, illuminating and thought provoking.
I'm not in a position to say much on here, but as an Arb it is so
sad to
see such wanton ignorance about these, to use a Chris Packham phrase,
'Ecological Cathedrals'.
I'm just reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything which I
thoroughly recommend and the extent of what we don’t know is a real
take home factor from this very accessible book. Some of it is very
funny too which always goes down well with me!
Indulge me a quote on fungi "gather together all the fungi in a
typical
hectare of meadowland and you will have 2800 kilogrammes of the stuff.
These are not marginal organisms. - Altogether, about 70 thousand
species have been identified but it is thought the total number could
be as high as
1.8 million".
That book was wrote in 2003 so I wouldn't be surprised if those
figures
are a lot higher now.
Cheers
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: uktc-request@xxxxxx.tree-care.info <
uktc-request@xxxxxx.tree-care.info> On Behalf Of Jon Heuch
Sent: 09 February 2021 12:34
To: UK Tree Care <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Subject: Re: How long does an ancient woodland take to develop?
Dave
It's quite a challenge since it is a categorisation (I was told off
once
by describing ASNW as a designation) so it cannot be recreated:
i) About 400 years
ii) You will need a time machine to enter the plot on
some
ancient maps to make sure that each subsequent map shows the area to
be
wooded
However, If you are asking how long will it take for a bare patch of
land to develop into woodland with some good ecological features of
course the best model is the Rothamsted fields that were left.
Wildnerness was the word adopted then; now we might used the term
re-wilding. They are very well documented
http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/index.php?area=home
<
http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/index.php?area=home&page=index&datase
t=8>
&page=index&dataset=8. They have been around for 140 years so you
may
have a lot of reading to do to work out what sort of time frame you
want to consider.
Jon
--
The UK Tree Care mailing list
To unsubscribe send mailto:uktc-unsubscribe@xxxxxx.tree-care.info
The UKTC forum is supported by Bosky Trees arboricultural
consultancy
and Stockholm Tree Pits https://www.stockholmtreepits.co.uk
--
The UK Tree Care mailing list
To unsubscribe send mailto:uktc-unsubscribe@xxxxxx.tree-care.info
The UKTC forum is supported by Bosky Trees arboricultural
consultancy and Stockholm Tree Pits
https://www.stockholmtreepits.co.uk
--
The UK Tree Care mailing list
To unsubscribe send mailto:uktc-unsubscribe@xxxxxx.tree-care.info
The UKTC forum is supported by Bosky Trees arboricultural
consultancy and Stockholm Tree Pits
https://www.stockholmtreepits.co.uk
--
The UK Tree Care mailing list
To unsubscribe send mailto:uktc-unsubscribe@xxxxxx.tree-care.info
The UKTC forum is supported by Bosky Trees arboricultural consultancy
and Stockholm Tree Pits https://www.stockholmtreepits.co.uk