Experts battle woodland killer fungus (From Daily Echo)
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Experts battle woodland killer fungus
10:43am Sunday 28th October 2012 in News
The New Forest
Experts are battling a killer fungus that threatens to devastate huge swathes of British woodland, including the New Forest.
Government ministers are taking urgent action to combat the deadly ash die-back disease, which could kill a third of British trees and is said to pose the biggest threat to UK woods since Dutch elm disease in the 1970s.
Cases of Chalara fraxinea have already been confirmed in Buckinghamshire and East Anglia - and experts fear it could destroy ash trees across the country.
Staff at the Forestry Commission, which manages the New Forest and other woodland areas, have been taken off their normal duties and redeployed in a bid to stamp out the disease.
A ban on importing ash trees into Britain or transporting their saplings around the country comes into force tomorrow.
Comments(11)
southy
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11:39am Sun 28 Oct 12
Ash is a native tree to this country.
Huffter
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1:36pm Sun 28 Oct 12
Brite Spark wrote:When are you planning to start?
Why do we have to import ash trees, I've got one at the bottom of my garden it wasn't imported. Lets cut them all down anyway and replace them with English oaks, sorted.
Brite Spark
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1:38pm Sun 28 Oct 12
100%HANTSBOY
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3:31pm Sun 28 Oct 12
IronLady2010
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7:24pm Sun 28 Oct 12
cantthinkofone
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7:29pm Sun 28 Oct 12
southy wrote:Well put. "Procession" IIRC.
BS Ash woodland, is like a Silver Birch woodland you have these types of woods before it slowly turns to Oak woodland, they provide shelter for young Oak tree to grow.
Ash is a native tree to this country.
axeman86
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7:46pm Sun 28 Oct 12
IronLady2010 wrote:No that would have been the phytophora ramorum infecting the rhody and larch
There is a large area in the New Forest which was cordoned off over the summer and lots of trees cut down. There were big warning signs stating not to enter due to possible contamination, I wonder if this is the same issue?
freefinker
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8:00pm Sun 28 Oct 12
cantthinkofone wrote:.. nope. You're thinking of succession.
southy wrote:Well put. "Procession" IIRC.
BS Ash woodland, is like a Silver Birch woodland you have these types of woods before it slowly turns to Oak woodland, they provide shelter for young Oak tree to grow.
Ash is a native tree to this country.
"The sequence of communities that develops in an area from the initial stages of colonisation until a stable mature climax community is achieved”
IronLady2010
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8:06pm Sun 28 Oct 12
axeman86 wrote:Thanks for that info. I was interested to know what it was as I love walking through the Forest. I did read one of the signs, but with the names of these diseases, it's hard to remember for research.
IronLady2010 wrote:No that would have been the phytophora ramorum infecting the rhody and larch
There is a large area in the New Forest which was cordoned off over the summer and lots of trees cut down. There were big warning signs stating not to enter due to possible contamination, I wonder if this is the same issue?
IronLady2010
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8:07pm Sun 28 Oct 12
. http://www.forestry.
gov.uk/pramorum
Brite Spark says...
10:48am Sun 28 Oct 12