Trees at Parkhurst, Bouldnor, Firestone Copse and Havenstreet that are infected with Ash Dieback disease are to be felled by Forestry England from Monday (23rd January).
The disease is caused by a fungus. The disease blocks the tree’s water transport system with devastating effects but is not harmful to people or animals.
During the removal of the trees, extra care should be taken and people are urged not to climb on log stacks.
Heavy machinery will be involved in the process so those visintg Parkhurst Forest, Bouldnor Forest, Firestone Copse and Combley Great Wood are urged to watch out for large machinery in operation.
Forestry England has said that the work will be carried out as safely and as quickly as possible in order to keep disruption at a minimum.
Ben Phelan, Forestry England’s local Forester, explains:
“Locally, Ash dieback disease has caused many trees across forests that we look after to become brittle and unstable, and a cause for concern.
“To protect the public, we’re having to remove many trees across our various woodlands on the Island. This will help to make Forestry England’s forests safer for users and those living near our boundaries.
Article continues below this advertisement “The removal of diseased ash trees is unwelcome, but a necessary job that is vital to help prevent the spread of the disease to other healthy trees.”
So much for the late dear Queen’s’green canopy’
As with most recently imported items into the UK new diseases and problems should have been researched first.
Costly once it’s too late
As with a lot of things coming to UK, it’s diseased and a problem
Think I heard somewhere that some ash trees survive, and in that case should be left as they are then stronger immunity wise, this immunity is then spread by pollinators and so the species survives.
I’m sure I will be corrected if in any way wrong, but I hope trees are not being prematurely felled.
Large dead or dying ash in or near to areas with alot of foot traffic has a high risk of failure with potentially fatal results. The forestry commission probably doesn’t want to take that risk.
95% of all ash on the island is expected to be lost to ash dieback. The good news is that only trees showing signs of infection are felled I believe so hopefully the variants with immunity will repopulate the island
Old school
I agree with you up to a point. These tress should not be erased to their roots, or even to a stump. leave the trunk at about 20/25 feet to enable woodpeckers to nest there.
Slight risk to humans ? Well we are not the only, or most important species on this planet, and God forbid that all we and future generations will only have lamposts and bus stops to admire. We NEED nature
No tree should be felled until its completely dead and it’s the isle of wight what forest the pocsy place ain’t big enough for a forest it has a few clumps of trees here and there that you can walk from one end to the other in an hour same as the rest of this damn country thanks mainly to that fat narcissistic murderer of a fake king Henry the 8th a forest a real forest takes days or weeks to walk through and as for things coming into this country bringing diseases it’s this country that’s the disease that spreads disease to other countries this country seriously needs to get over itself great Britain hahaha what a joke.
Let’s all hope Jok is feeling better tomorrow.
Feel free to fuck off and and live somewhere else you treacherous low life cunt .
Make way for more house’s, the only disease we have is the parasites in charge…
Just wait for the “oh I cut that down as a mistake” in return for a nice big brown envelope of course.
Don’t forget all the dead wood at the IWC HQ mainly in the chambers !!