by Mark Roberts | Jul 12, 2017 | Trees
3327 words later it ends like this. It’s not so much that I don’t believe in the urban forest – it exists, it is there, I just think we are looking after it from the wrong angle. If ever there was a ‘look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’...
by Mark Roberts | Jul 4, 2017 | Trees, Uncategorized
Not being afraid to throw the proverbial cat at the pigeons, I have proposed a paper for the 2nd Asia Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting on why urban forests cannot exist… The myth of the urban forest Abstract: Urban forests are not naturally occurring...
by Mark Roberts | May 21, 2017 | Trees
The management of ancient and veteran trees has become very topical and this is not necessarily a bad thing. Managing venerable old trees requires a different mind-set, and I quite like that. Sometimes it’s best to throw the rule book away, do something...
by Mark Roberts | Apr 11, 2017 | Trees, Uncategorized
There comes a point where you start to assume others know what you know. Not in a paranoid ‘they’re in my head’ kind of way, but simply because you take a piece of knowledge for granted. That knowledge ceases to be special to you, you know it, you have known it for so...
by Mark Roberts | Feb 17, 2017 | Trees
We have known for many years that trees communicate with each other, that their responses to insect and/or animal attack can be picked up by other trees. We know that the attacked tree can send out warning signals to other trees and these signals can be very specific;...
