Trees, Science and Opinion
25th September 2011
Below is a short opinion piece I wrote for Chartered Forester Magazine – the membership magazine of the Institute of Chartered Foresters, the professional body for foresters and arboriculturists – my view is based on my work as an arboricultural consultant undertaking tree surveys in relation to property damage: Anyone who attended this years ICF conference can be under no doubt as to the major benefits urban trees provide. However, as some of the post-conference debate showed, urban trees implicated […]
4th August 2011
This years ICF conference ‘Trees, People and the Built Environment’, was a great experience. At around 400 delegates this was probably the largest number ever seen at a tree conference in the UK. Nearly all of the 29 speakers were academic doctors and the international flavour was great, with nine of them invited from overseas; so it was an honour for me to stand up alongside them to represent my research and then get my brains picked by an audience of arboricultural experts afterwards. […]