Havant Borough Tree Wardens

Friends of Park Wood Festival 2010

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:45:36 +0000

This years festival is on Saturday 11th September and will include a display by Havant Borough Tree Wardens. Admission is free and the event is for all the family. Activities include:

Face painting
Storytelling
Treasure Trail
Wood turning

About 30 organisations are confirmed as participants, including British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, Hampshire Wildlife Trust and The South Downs Group, Country Park Spinners, Slow Food Solent, The Sustainability Centre, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and others.

See the Friends of Park Wood web site for more details.

Tree Warden display at 2010 Hampshire Water Festival

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:47:38 +0000

Some photos of the Water Festival event at Staunton Park in July 2010:

Havant Borough Tree Warden display at the Water Festival

Stall included displays by BTCV, Friends of Park Wood and Brook Meadows

Urban trees and bird migration

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:15:58 +0000

Scientists in America have shown that urban trees, woods and forests help many migrating birds journey between winter and breeding sites. The scientists tagged over 100 birds and were able to monitor where they rested and for how long. As a result they were able to see how important urban green spaces were.

BBC Link

“Movement behaviour of a forest songbird in an urbanized landscape: the relative importance of patch-level effects and body condition during migratory stopover”
by Stephen N. Matthewsand Paul G. Rodewald

Portsmouth & Southsea Tree Wardens

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:33:09 +0000

Portsmouth and Southsea Tree Wardens formally came into existence In March
2010 after an inaugural meeting on 25 February. They have a web
site at this URL:

http://www.portsmouthsouthseatreewardens.co.nr

They are having a Tree ID walk guided by Jon Stokes around Milton Park on Sunday 23 May 2010 2pm – 4pm.

Understanding Trees – Training Course

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:10:44 +0000

The Arboricultural Association is running a weekend training course in May, 2010 called ‘Understanding Trees’.

“This new course has been developed to help the general public
and those with a particular interest in trees, to raise awareness
of basic but essential elements of arboricultural understanding,
and to enable those with a natural interest in trees to further their
knowledge, both for their own benefit and also to help society at
large make better informed judgements on
tree-related matters.”

Date: 7-9 May 2010
Place: Preston Montford, Field Studies Centre, Shrewsbury. SY4 1DX.
Course Tutor: Julie Sadler

For further information and booking form, please go to
www.trees.org.uk/course.php

Emsworth children plant trees at their school

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:49:21 +0000

Local Tree Wardens in Emsworth assisted school children from Emsworth Primary School to plant 30 trees in their school grounds in December 2009, as a part of the National Tree Week. The trees, a mixture of Silver Birch, Wild Cherry and Rowan, were supplied for free by the Woodland Trust Tree For All scheme. The Tree Wardens prepared the ground in advance of the children planting the trees. On the day of planting, groups of children were brought out to plant the trees at the prepared site in the school grounds. John Green a Havant Borough Tree Warden demonstrated how the trees should be planted and later planted an Elm and 2 Oaks in the school grounds.

New Trees Planted in Havant

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:39:34 +0000

New trees at the bridge on Park Road North

Six new Red Ash (Fraxinus Pennsylvanica) trees have been planted along the embankment at the bridge on Park Road North, thanks to the efforts of Ralph Cousins, a Leigh Park/Havant area tree warden. The trees were paid for with funds from Havant and Emsworth Chamber of Commerce.

Twitter about trees

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:35:40 +0000

The Tree Council is now on Twitter, so if you feel like having a tweet, go along to the councils Twitter page at twitter.com/TheTreeCouncil and join in.

Tree planting at Jubilee Park

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:41:13 +0000

Tree Wardens in the Waterlooville area helped the BCTV voluntary organisation plant trees at Jubilee Park recently. Most of the work however, was done by youths from the PETA training organisation, who helped plant some 150 tree whips in various locations of the park. Rachel Moroney from BCTV gave a quick lesson in planting the whips, before about 10 youths and some tree wardens marched off with spades and gloves to do some planting.

Winter Tree ID sheet

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:43:16 +0000

The Woodland Trust has produced a Tree Identification sheet that is easy to use. The sheet pictures winter twigs of 18 common UK trees and can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Woodland Trust web site. It can be printed on most home computer printers.