Countryside Jobs Service Weekly Special Edition 22 November 04 in Association with the Tree Council for National Tree Week
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Countryside Jobs Service Weekly Special Edition 22 November 04 in association with The Tree Council for National Tree Week. Trees and Hedges Supplement. Stars to launch National Tree Week Two famous faces from stage and screen, Griff Rhys Jones and Celia Imrie, will launch The Tree Council’s National Tree Week on 24 November by planting one of the many thousands of trees that will go into the ground during this UK-wide celebration of trees and woods. This year’s theme is ‘plant our heritage’ — and Griff Rhys Jones has already done a great deal to raise the profile of Britain’s heritage through the TV series, ‘Restoration’. He and actress Celia Imrie will plant a ‘heritage tree of the future’ near the London home of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), which is hosting the launch as part of its 250th anniversary tree planting initiative. “We are marking The Tree Council’s 30th anniversary by challenging everyone to follow this lead and plant trees for future generations to enjoy. Thanks in great part to the effort that arboriculturalists and conservationists put into National Tree Week, up to a million trees are planted each year as a result of this winter festival,” says Tree Council Campaigns Director Kevin Hand. “Planted properly and given a few minutes of annual care in their early years, young trees are well set to grow into heritage trees — green monuments of great historical or cultural significance.” During the Week, actor Norman Painting — Phil Archer from the BBC Radio 4 series — will join pupils of Campion School, Leamington Spa, to plant trees and help transform an area of playing field into a nature reserve. Painting’s Plantation, as it will be known, is The Tree Council’s 80th birthday tribute to him as one of its vice presidents. Campion is among 200 schools and community groups giving their surroundings a green make-over, backed by Tree Council grants. Director-General Pauline Buchanan Black says: “We offer these grants to help them plant trees in what are often neglected public open spaces or barren tarmac playgrounds. Trees are such a vital part of our heritage, and it is essential that today’s generations continue to plant and nurture new ones for people to enjoy in the future.” National Tree Week is sponsored by Anglo American plc and its subsidiary, Mondi Packaging, whose employees will also be planting trees in schools and communities near its sites. Plantings like these and other events planned by Tree Council member organisations, its volunteer Tree Wardens and other supporters, are at the heart of the Week. Some Tree Wardens will plant hedge trees donated by one of those members, the Woodland Trust, as part of its Tree For All initiative. They will be doing their bit for The Tree Council’s Hedge Tree Campaign, run in partnership with National Grid Transco, to help reverse the decline of a once characteristic feature of the countryside. A new element of National Tree Week is Trees and Faiths. People are encouraged to get together to celebrate the links with trees that appear in almost all the world’s religions. The Tree Council, founded in 1974 to keep up the momentum of the Plant a Tree in ’73 campaign and bring organisations together to work for trees, ran the first National Tree Week in 1975. Today it is a partnership of 150 members, ranging from professional, non-governmental, specialist and trade organisations, including other conservation charities, to local authorities and government bodies Details of National Tree Week events — from planting to walks, talks, story telling, tree dressing and woodcrafts — are regularly updated on the website, www.treecouncil.org.uk, and are also available on 020 7940 8180 during office hours. Country Land and Business Association (CLA) With almost one hundred years experience, the Country Visit www.rfs.org.uk for all tree wisdom. Land and Business Association is the premier organisation safeguarding the interests of those responsible for land, property and business North Highland Forest Trust is a Charitable Company which promotes community forestry within the throughout England and Wales www.cla.org.uk Caithness and Sutherland area. The Trust works Forestry Commission of Great Britain Protecting and closely with community groups or individuals, providing expanding Britain's forests and woodlands and advice and practical support for sustainable forestry increasing their value to society and the environment. and wood use initiatives, such as tree planting, milling For career information and details of current vacancies timber or wood fuel projects. www.nhft.org.uk or 01408 visit www.forestry.gov.uk/employment or phone 0845 633 986 FORESTS (3673787). Countryside Jobs Service Weekly - Special Edition www.countryside-jobs.com The Ancient Tree Forum seeks to secure the future of The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland ancient trees through advocacy for greater protection, conservation charity. Find out more at www.woodland- encouraging research, promoting best conservation trust.org.uk The Trust has recently launched an practice and increasing people's enjoyment of old ambitious new campaign, Tree For All. Tree For All is trees.. The Forum works with the Woodland Trust to offering schools the chance to apply for a free hedge or conserve this priceless legacy. For details ring 01476 hazel copse pack. For further details visit 581135 or see www.ancient-tree-forum.org.uk . www.treeforall.org.uk The Tree Advice Trust publishes advice on the Northwoods is the North East of England's woodland cultivation and management of trees. The Trust has a intiative, and works to promote and grow the tree and disease diagnosis service and operates a consultancy timber business of the Region. Providing advice, service. The Tree Advice Trust is a registered UK training and funding for the private sector, as well as charity. For details of publications and services visit advice, project management services and training for www.treehelp.info Helpline 09065 161147 (premium the public sector. Northwoods training courses are rate service) available to anyone outside the North East, www.northwoods.org.uk 01669 621 489. The Wildlife Trusts are a partnership of 47 local Trusts across the UK. Their vision is 'an environment richer in Inspiring People, Improving Places. BTCV, the UK’s wildlife for everyone' and they're the largest charity leading practical conservation charity, helps 140,000 exclusively dedicated to conserving all UK habitats and volunteers a year to improve their urban and rural species, with 530,000 members plus 62,000 junior environments. Activities include regular conservation members. For further information please visit tasks, UK and International Conservation Holidays, www.wildlifetrusts.org Green Gym® as well as training opportunities and online shop. Tel: 01302 572244 Web: www.btcv.org The National Urban Forestry Unit is a charity working e-mail: [email protected] with central and local government, businesses and other environmental charities to help create a more Silvanus Trust plants some 5,000 trees with tree-rich environment as an important means of communities and schools every year, and has funding improving the quality of life for the millions of people from various sources to do so. Principal funder of the who live and work in towns and cities. www.nufu.org.uk trees themselves is Western Power Distribution. For the forthcoming season, we plan schemes across Devon and Cornwall. Contact us for more information Trees For Cities (www.treesforcities.org) is an on 01579-372100. independent charity working in Addis Ababa, Bucharest, Madrid, Manchester and London. We aim to tackle global warming, create wildlife habitats and Forestry & Timber Association is the leading beautify cities by planting trees in urban areas of representative body for all those involved in the greatest need. The public can get involved by growing, tending, harvesting and management of trees, throughout UK. Benefits include: information through sponsoring trees or becoming a volunteer. quarterly magazine, regional and HQ staff, conferences, field meetings and website; chemical, Central Scotland Forest Trust leads the creation of legal and taxation helplines; biennial exhibition and the Central Scotland Forest by, with partners, improving South West Woodland Show. the landscape and environment between Edinburgh, www.forestryandtimber.org Glasgow, Lanark and Falkirk. Through a mosaic of woodlands, the Forest will become an attractive place which will enhance the lives, and life chances, of those living, working and playing there. www.csft.co.uk So you think you want to be a Lumberjack! Jobs working with trees tend to be divided into two areas Forestry and Arboriculture. Both are involved in the planting and care of trees but with differing aims. Forestry is defined as "the science and practice of managing forests and woodlands". But modern multi-purpose forestry is about far more than just growing trees for timber and now embraces everything from planting and managing large coniferous forests to creating and tending small broadleaved woodlands, raising young trees in nurseries to felling and delivering timber to wood-using industries. Timber production still underpins forestry practices but at all levels the forestry staff's remit is broader than ever. Woods and forests are managed to offer multiple benefits for people, wildlife and the environment in general. Arboriculture is the science and practice of producing and managing tree and shrubs in both town and countryside with amenity as the main objective. Sharing many skills with forestry but with its own unique requirements particularly in urban situations where maintenance and protection of individual trees is of high importance, but timber production is not paramount. Arboriculture can involve producing and planting amenity trees and shrubs, and then maintaining their health by pruning, thinning and tree surgery operations.