Ash Dieback: are you ready? Online training event, 26 February, 10.00am

Does your woodland have a problem with ash dieback?

Do you know what to do?

Do you know where to find help and support?

Have you thought about what might replace your Ash in the future?

Would you like to know more?

Ash Dieback is a widespread, highly destructive fungal disease that affects European Ash. It causes leaf loss and canopy decline. Over time the disease may kill the tree, or often other opportunistic disease-causing organisms, such as honey fungus may cause its eventual death by accelerating wood decay.

Dead and dying trees can pose severe risks in a community woodland, along footpaths and at road edges, the trees themselves and dead and dying branches may become brittle and fall leading to injury or death.

Jon Stokes (Director of Trees, Science and Research for the Tree Council) is coming to provide us with an informative and useful online event to learn about ash dieback and to discuss how to deal with the problems highlighted above as well as the management options for woodlands affected by it.

This is an opportunity for you to find out how to identify and assess the condition of ash trees in your woodland and what management options you may need to consider. You can register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdO6prTwsHNGkG6Zt-RJgFAV6ZszYACyc

For more information, please contact Amanda at amanda@communitywoods.org