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A perfect spring picnic at The Yorkshire Arboretum.
We couldn’t have asked for more perfect weather as our whole team of tree experts gathered together for a day out at The Yorkshire Arboretum.
Arboretums contain a carefully curated collection of trees and are an ideal place for tree experts to have an enriching and relaxing day out of the office. Visiting arboretums offers many benefits to tree surveyors; from the ability to practise tree ID skills on a diverse range of species and learn about local biodiversity initiatives to meeting passionate people working in another area of the arboricultural industry – all of whom share a desire to see trees well cared for. It was also a great place for a picnic.
We began our morning walking around the east side of the site past Atkinson’s bog and through the woodland garden, where, after marvelling at its surfaces and many habit features, we practised our best band photo skills on a giant hunk of deadwood.
Our team of dendrophiles then slowly strolled through the Tercentenary Wood discussing tree form and catching up with each other in person.
Most arboretums usually have a very impressive diversity of tree species in them. This rich tapestry serves as an invaluable resource for arboricultural consultants to expand their understanding of different tree species. Arboretums allow for hands-on learning enabling tree experts to examine trees’ unique characteristics and growth patterns.
Continuing our stroll we came to a bench opposite a huge crop of fluffy willow in the centre of the arboretum that was just starting to buzz with spring insect life; the perfect spot for lunch. Sika, our tree decay detection dog, was a bit miffed at having not had a proper baguette made up for her and thought she might like to go to the arboretum cafe instead.
After lunch, it was time for more novelty ID practice and a chance for the tree consultants to explain some of the techniques they use to ID trees when undertaking arboricultural surveys. Those who work in the office don’t get to examine trees that often so it was nice to get a chance to do so at the arboretum.
Tree surveys can be requested for such a wide variety of purposes and an arboricultural consultant will always enquire about the nature of the tree report required prior to undertaking the survey so the correct data can be collected. Whatever the survey though, our consultants will always need to know what species of tree we are commenting on as this determines how it will interact with its environment both under and overground.
Columnar, upright, spreading, oval, weeping, open and irregular are terms used to describe a tree’s form and the way trees grow to reach a particular form is described as their habit. An arboretum is a great place to see this as the trees are often planted and maintained in a way that allows their natural habits to be visible.
After all the walking, and lots of talk about various advances in tree surveying technology, there was just time for our arboricultural consultants to catch some blossoms before we set off.
We would like to thank The Yorkshire Arboretum for such a splendid day out and highly recommend it to anyone living in or visiting Yorkshire. We look forward to returning again in the not-too-distant future.
Not in Yorkshire? Tony Kirkham (Former head of the Arboretum and Gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew) recently published an article in Country Life magazine titled Best arboretums in the UK and it features locations from across the British Isles. You can also search for even more local sites using Forestry England’s forest map.
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What is the Trees and Woodlands Strategy Toolkit?
The cover of the Trees and Woodland Strategy Toolkit
The Tree Council recently launched their Trees and Woodland Strategy Toolkit which is aimed at local authority tree teams. It says on their website:
A Trees and Woodland Strategy is a key tool for ensuring our treescapes flourish and are protected for the future. This innovative toolkit brings together the knowledge and expertise of dozens of Local Authorities, Community Forests and sector organisations, setting us on the path to a more resilient future treescape.
Our consultants were keen to find out more about the document and its intended use so they joined the Trees and Woodland Strategy launch event in Leeds.
Why do Local Authorities need to produce Tree Strategies in the first place?
It is now widely recognised that urban trees provide enormous benefits to the inhabitants of towns and cities; from tackling the effects of urban heat islands and intercepting air pollution to increasing high street spending and improving residents’ well-being.
Historically in many areas of the UK, managing the urban forest has largely been done reactively as opposed to proactively. Reactive management is when a problem is acted upon only after it arises and the focus of urban forest managers is largely limited to managing health and safety risks arising from trees. Sadly this approach to tree management can lead to emerging threats going undetected, which in turn can affect the health of the urban forest and compromise its capacity to deliver the ecosystem services benefits for which it is often intended.
Tree strategies are therefore proposed as a proactive framework for addressing this moving forward. They should enable stakeholders to create a unified approach to management with defined responsibilities and strategic targets which can be set, managed, monitored and reviewed. As we have previously championed in another article; “what gets measured, gets managed, gets done.”
How many councils have Tree Strategies?
Research published in 2022 by Kathryn Hand, Harriet Rix, Jon Stokes and Kieron Doick, found that 143 of 353 (41%) English local governments had a publicly accessible urban tree strategy. However, when the researchers analysed the content of these strategies they found them to be highly variable in content. As stated in the research paper’s abstract:
The variability in the existence and content of strategies could lead to differing urban forest management practices across England, which are not in line with recent national environmental objectives and recommended guidance.
It is hoped that the Trees and Woodland Strategy Toolkit will be used by Local Authorities during the development or updating of their Tree Strategies; and that by providing such a detailed reference document there will be more consistency in the content and quality of Tree Strategies being produced.
Why do so many Local Authorities still not have tree Strategies?
Moving to a proactive ecosystem-service-based approach to urban forest management is not, as some might assume, a walk in the park.
These documents are in no way generic and take many hours of specialised, evidence-based critical thinking with a variety of co-existing place-based stakeholders. Doing this takes time, personnel, financial resources and critically – the correct level of arboricultural management knowledge to deliver a tree strategy which will sustain itself in a changing climate.
Austerity measures have significantly constrained council budgets over the past decade and the amount of money available to Local Authority tree teams has naturally been impacted by this. There remain councils which do not have a permanent Tree Officer position at all – although thankfully, more recently, this has been improving.
What did our consultants get out of the day?
In order to keep providing an outstanding service, our consultants need to understand what the future of urban forest management best practices will look like across the country.
Over a decade of refining arboricultural reports so that they are easy to use for both site managers and Tree Officers, means we can offer clear, location-specific and policy-aware advice to those proposing development; whether that’s a simple home extension, or a nationally significant infrastructure project.
At Crown Tree Consultancy we pride ourselves on our good relationships with Tree Officers and Planning Officers across the country, and it was wonderful for our consultants to catch up with tree officers based in West Yorkshire and beyond. Our arboricultural consultant Emma said:
“One thing I particularly enjoyed about the day was meeting local Tree Officers. Although we occasionally meet Tree Officers during pre-application meetings for development sites, we mainly correspond via email – so it was good to be able to meet in person and not in relation to a specific site.
When we are writing reports, we are always acutely aware of what a high workload Tree Officers have and try to make our tree reports as succinct as possible. So much of our work is development-related and the planning policies are an important part of that.
Although there are national policies like the NPPF, TCPA and Environment Act which affect everyone – it is important to consider how these Tree Strategies and Local Plans will interact with development proposals at a more local level. Thoroughly reviewing emerging policy helps us to preempt what a local authority is and is not likely to support in a planning application.
All in all, it was a great day and gave our consultants a good understanding of what to expect from tree strategy documents and their utility in the future. You can read what The Tree Council wrote about the launch event here.
If you are a Tree Officer or Local Authority which has been required to produce a tree strategy and need expert advice on developing it in line with specific arboricultural objectives, we strongly recommend having a thorough look through The Tree Council’s resources page; there is lots of helpful advice and examples of existing tree strategies on there.
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Our tree surveyor had some surprising assistance on a recent arboricultural survey!
A little while ago, one of our arboricultural consultants undertook a BS5837 tree survey of the trees at an alpaca farm!
The managers wanted pre-planning advice on the condition and constraints posed by their green infrastructure so they could design appropriately. We were shortly later asked to produce an Arboricultural Impact Assessment and Arboricultural Method Statement for their chosen design.
An alpaca-ful tree survey.
A little while ago our arboricultural consultant Joe spent the day doing a tree survey with some unlikely assistants; a herd of beautiful alpacas!
These savvy surveyors couldn’t help themselves; following Joe around checking he had done his root protection area calculations correctly and even finding their way into the final arboricultural report…
We had been invited to the alpaca farm to undertake an Arboricultural Survey and provide a pre-planning arboricultural report to BS5837 standards. On this site, we were instructed to:
- Assess all trees potentially within influencing distance of proposed development within the site.
- Plot the trees on a Tree Constraints Plan and record the data in a Tree Data Schedule.
- Provide an overview of the site and any management recommendations.
- Determine if any of the trees are growing within a conservation area or are protected by a tree preservation order.
- Provide guidance for architects or developers to enable them to understand and design within the existing tree constraints.
Green Infrastructure comes first.
We always advocate for the involvement of an arboricultural professional as early in a development project as possible; that way developers understand which trees are providing significant benefits to the site (and should therefore be retained), and which trees if any, could be removed due to the presence of disease or dangerous decay.
Once the proposed design had been finalised, we provided management recommendations which would enable the applicant to retain a Honey Locust tree whose root protection area (RPA) spanned the proposed new driveway location. The details of the tree protection measures required during the construction were included in the Arboricultural Method Statement – detail is shown in the image below.
In his summary, arboricultural consultant Joe Taylor wrote:
“T4 requires minimal pruning to create an adequate clearance from the proposal. No significant hard surfacing is proposed where soft ground currently exists over RPAs. However, if it becomes necessary to replace the existing driveway over the Root Protection Area of T4, any excavation shall be limited to the removal of the existing surface and the associated sub-base.”
This means that the contractors must take care not to interfere with or damage the tree roots when resurfacing the driveway. We often get contacted during the pre-planning stage by clients wishing to retain street trees, or trees just within a property boundary, during the construction of a driveway and extension. This is exactly what our arboricultural consultants specialise in and there are some fantastic surfacing options that enable the retention of trees where their roots would otherwise be damaged.
It was while our consultant Joe was considering the driveway, that some of its regular users showed up to demonstrate their significant compaction capabilities. Warning – this video contains a LOT of alpacas!
Local Authorities are likely to request an arboricultural report that contains an Arboricultural Impact Assessment (AIA) and a site-specific Arboricultural Method Statement (AMS). You can find out more detail about each of the documents by clicking the text links above.
If you want to avoid delaying a decision about your planning application, ensure you correctly inform the Local Authorities of any trees present on the site and show that you have instructed a suitably qualified arboricultural consultant to produce a BS5837 arboricultural report. These days the Local Authority can easily tell if you have trees on your property through aerial imagery; so there is certainly no point in lying about it and there are serious penalties for undertaking works or removing certain trees without permission. We have the expertise to navigate all manner of construction situations regarding trees and look forward to working with you to find a situation that is appropriate for your trees and project budget.
If you are planning a development project and want advice about your existing green infrastructure and how to enhance biodiversity through the construction process, please do not hesitate to contact us using the form or telephone 08000 141 330.
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When it comes to tree condition surveys – safe is better than sorry.
In November, one of our arboricultural consultants undertook a tree condition survey of the trees within the grounds of an independently managed housing estate in just outside London.
The managers had become concerned about the condition of the trees and wanted an independent expert to take a look.
Legally speaking, in the UK, Anyone who owns or manages land containing trees has a legal duty to ensure that they are in a safe condition so that foreseeable damage does not occur due to tree failure. This is clearly stated in the Occupiers Liability Act 1954/1980).
In practice, this means that all trees should be inspected regularly by a suitably qualified person. If nobody in your organisation has undertaken basic tree-risk assessment training then you should seek the advice of an arboricultural consultant. Their findings, and any risk features identified, should be investigated by a suitably qualified arboricultural professional. You can find out more about choosing a well qualified arboricultural consultant on our Qualifications and Credentials page.
So what happened at this housing estate?
Our expert tree team received a call from the head of the management company requesting the inspection of six large beech trees. When our tree surveyor arrived on site to carry out the arboricultural safety inspection they identified that all of the trees were suffering from beech bark disease; some only showed early signs of infection while others were heavily infected.
Crown Tree Consultancy’s tree condition survey reports contain a detailed, site-specific review of tree disease management options that can be considered. In this instance, during the tree survey, the consultant noticed that cars parked adjacent to the trees on the soft verge may be contributing to compaction, and recommended Terraventing as an option for improving the tree’s natural defence capacity against the fungus.
An appropriate response.
Mature trees are an appreciating asset on a housing estate, providing significant benefits for people and wildlife – so their removal is always a last resort. As arboricultural consultants, we remain entirely independent from tree surgery operations and have no incentive to recommend unnecessary work or remove trees prematurely. You can see from the report snippet below that our assessments are detailed and informative; focusing on compliance, cost-effective management and most importantly – safety.
However, at this site, three out of the six trees we were initially sent to inspect were recommended for removal. These trees were selectively felled by the management companies contractor and they kindly sent us photos along with the comment:
“With reference to your excellent report of 1st June on our beech trees, I attach a number of photos showing what was found when selective felling took place this week. The accuracy of the report has been superbly verified, so thanks once again.”
There were approximately 35 other trees at the site which were not scheduled for a tree condition survey that day, but which our tree assessor quickly noted showed some indications of previous infection with felted beech scale, some significant decay at the base and at old pruning wounds.
You can see the extent of the decay in the images sent in below.
There was also kretschmaria deusta present. As such – these trees were recommended for a full inspection at a later date. You can see from the report snippet below that our assessments are detailed and informative; focusing on compliance, cost-effective management and most importantly – safety.
The report goes on to describe in detail a variety of methods which may be used to improve the condition of the soil in the root protection area. This case highlights the beneficial outcomes of having an experienced arboricultural consultant on board during the formation of an ongoing management plan for trees. A less experienced assessment could have gone two ways; an overzealous arborist could have recommended the removal of all of the trees, leaving the residents with none of the many benefits provided by the canopy cover – while a hasty or unqualified walkover inspection, may not have realised the possible extent of the internal decay.
We were able to provide a safe solution for the customer, retaining benefits but detailing how to reduce the risk posed by the trees to an acceptable level. We were pleased to be invited back to inspect the rest of the trees at the site shortly after. If you manage a property with trees on it and want to ensure the trees do not pose an unacceptable risk to users of the site, contact our team for a free quotation today. If you’d like to keep up to date with what our consultants are up to, why not sign up for our quarterly newsletter? We keep it strictly tree – just pop your email in the box below and hit enter to subscribe.
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Our favourite decay detection dog is finally feeling better.
Last year, something rather dramatic happened to our decay-detection dog, Sika, pictured left.
Read on to find out how our favourite tree decay detector has made a comeback. Click any of the links below to share this ‘cheesy’ story with your network.
Sika is our principal arboricultural consultant’s decay detection dog. She is specially trained to assist with detecting tree-decay fungi on arboricultural surveys and is especially useful on woodland management surveys and tree surveys on rural estates.
Raised on the steep slopes of the South Pennines, Sika is used to all sorts of rugged terrain but in the middle of last year she was out with a friend and chased a ball over a low cliff, dislocating her hip and giving everyone a fright.
The vet tried to relocate her hip (two times) but, unfortunately, it wouldn’t stay in the socket. Skip a few sentences if you’re feeling squeamish, but read on to hear how our amazing canine decay detector recovered in time for Christmas…
Poor old Sika had to have what’s called a Femoral Head Ostectomy. In this operation, the vet chopped off the top of the very top bit of her femur – the whole of her leg was not attached to the pelvis anymore. It’s pretty scary-sounding stuff, but dogs are amazing healers. At first, the muscles of the dog’s leg hold the femur in place, the socket scabs over, and then over time scar tissue creates a cushion in the empty joint socket. Eventually, the combination results in pain-free mobility for most dogs who have this surgery. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing getting Sika back to health.
Ivan Button explains:
“It took several months of rehabilitation and incredibly slow walking at a snail’s pace to encourage Sika to put her leg down on the ground and at first she was very reluctant, she was holding it in the air – but every time she touched the ground we would reward her with a bit of cheese and every time she lifted it off the ground we would stop walking…she soon got the hang of it and started to put weight on the leg, strengthening the muscles bite by bite.”
A few months later she started getting back to business. In October she was waking and running just like before and spent some time out brushing up on her decay scenting skills. This year she is looking forward to joining arboricultural consultants on their surveys again (when invited!) and we are looking forward to sharing more information with everyone about how Ivan actually trained Sika in the first place.
Sika can sniff out a wide range of UK tree decay-inducing pathogens, including Kretzschmaria deusta and Meripilus Giganteus. She can also sniff out a whole host more than those two, as you can see from the last shot in the video below. If you’ve not seen Sika’s arboricultural survey skills in action before then do check out the video now. There is music on this video so please mute your speakers or turn your sound down if you prefer not to hear it. The fullscreen button is located next to the volume icon.
If you have spotted a funny-looking fungus on a tree you own, get it inspected by a professional arboricultural consultant. It might be nothing to worry about – some trees form symbiotic relationships with fungi that endure decades – however, some fungi cause heart rot meaning the tree is decaying inside despite appearing intact on the exterior. A qualified consultant can assess the extent of the decay using a Resi Drill.
A Resi Drill is used to help determine the extent of internal decay present throughout the stem or buttress roots of a tree. The device measures the resistance that the wood offers while drilling. The measurement profile recorded whilst drilling provides information about the internal condition of the wood and decayed zones. We’re going to delve into this a little deeper next week sharing another case study, this time from a housing estate we surveyed in November.
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If you have any queries about trees with possible decay, please do not hesitate to contact us using the form or telephone 08000 141 330 – Sika will be patiently waiting to take your call!
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The National Tree Officer Conference 2022
Just over a week ago, our innovation manager Daisy returned from a brilliant day out at the National Tree Officers Conference in Telford. The NTOC is an annual conference, hosted and coordinated by the Institute of Chartered Foresters, the Association of Tree Officers, the Municipal Tree Officers Association and the London Tree Officers Association. This year, the focus of the conference was on long-term arboricultural management practices, legal aspects of tree management and the benefits of community engagement.
Conference organisers recognised that accelerating climate change and the pandemic have increased public awareness of the need for accessible green infrastructure to support well-being in our lives. The role that good tree management provides in delivering these benefits was at the heart of many of the presentations on the day.
Setting Good Management Standards
One of the presentations that really stood out was Matthew Wells MICFor, who was once the Arboricultural Officer for Camden, a location where Crown Tree Consultancy complete a lot of arboricultural reports for planning purposes. Matthew has long since graduated from that role however and has been working in the United States as a Public Landscape Manager for the City of Santa Monica for a number of years. There he delivers an urban forestry program that places much of its emphasis on routine maintenance and collecting reliable data.
It was his focus on the collection of reliable data by urban forest managers that made this one of the highlight speeches.
“What gets measured, gets managed, gets done”, Matthew reiterated Peter Druker’s famous phrase, and he backed this up with a slide showing all the areas that Santa Monica is measuring, and the intervals/frequency at which such inspections are being made, you can see this slide below. Annually, they are measuring; net tree gain/loss, species diversity and street tree stocking. Every five years they are measuring young tree mortality and ecosystem services and every decade they are doing an urban tree canopy survey.
Delving Into Tree Establishment Mortality
Having attended the conference on a bursary from Fund4Trees, Daisy enquired further as to the technique Santa Monica urban foresters used to monitor young tree mortality. Matthew said they have been calculating this by revisiting a sample of newly planted sites after 5 years and recording details about the condition of the trees. He also stated that this survey had been done by an independent party to ensure the council was not “marking their own homework”, enabling changes to management to be made where necessary.
The availability of young tree mortality data from the UK is something that Daisy is hoping to research in detail in the coming months, and she has begun this by asking as many tree officers as possible to complete a five-minute micro-survey. The survey hopes to form a basic impression of existing post-planting maintenance programmes, and also to probe what factors Tree Officers consider important to investigate (in relation to successful tree establishment). The results of this survey will be used to refine her methodology when further researching this topic next year.
The deadline for this survey has just been extended:
The survey closes on the 25th of November at 6 pm!
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Photo: Crown Tree Consultants measuring DBH as part of a routine management inspection.
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Why are tree condition surveys important?
After the weather we have had this winter, there has never been a more critical time to carry out tree condition surveys on trees you manage.
Climate change is fuelling ever-more extreme weather events – with one-in-a-hundred-year storms now occurring frequently. Over the past two years, we have seen an increase in tree failures occurring across the United Kingdom, with storm Arwen recently bringing down an estimated 16 million trees across the north of England and Scotland. This caused devastation to infrastructure and property and even cost lives. Regular safety inspections of trees are therefore becoming an increasingly important part of responsible management.
Trees are a fundamental part of a healthy ecological system. They provide a myriad of fundamental benefits such as oxygen and habitat, as well as more nuanced societal benefits such as amenity and well-being impacts. They do however pose some risks as they grow and age. Professional tree condition surveys provide you with the assurance that you have reduced any risk to an acceptable level. During your tree condition survey, we will identify defects such as weak branch junctions, disease or decay and we will assess how the structural integrity of each tree is affected. We will also produce a pruning schedule with our management recommendations that can be passed on to a suitably qualified arborist.
The video above is of Ivan Button undertaking a tree condition survey on a large oak tree that was sadly, but necessarily, recommended for removal. After this video, he goes on to use a Resi Drill ™ to confirm the physical findings. You can find out more about the Resi Drill ™ here. Crown Tree Consultancy then submitted a 5-day Notice of Intent to remove the tree, to the Local Authority, owing to the dangerous proximity of the tree to the house.
Ivan explains:
“The video shows the importance of tapping around the base of trees during safety surveys. The bark around the base of this tree appeared absolutely fine upon visual inspection – no indication of death or decay whatsoever. The sparse canopy and abundance of dead twigs indicated a root disorder (so did the client’s report of fungi at the base). I tapped around the base and found a couple of areas where the sound was very dull. Other than that dull sound, there was no indication of dead bark or decay. Then I peeled back the turf around the base and started investigating with a metal probe – and you can see what I unearthed.”
Regular tree condition surveys are an important part of responsible tree ownership. By focusing on your legal obligations, Crown Tree Consultancy will help you to manage your tree stock affordably. During the survey, all trees will be professionally inspected, with detailed reporting limited to those few trees that require remedial works. This method reduces survey fees and maintenance costs, as well as saving you time. Furthermore, because we remain independent from tree surgery operations, we have no incentive to recommend unnecessary work.
If you haven’t had a tree condition survey recently, you are advised to arrange one to ensure your trees do not pose an unacceptable risk to anyone attending your property.
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