How do you balance a love of trees with the responsibility for keeping our road network open and safe, across thousands of hectares of Scotland?
This is a partnership event with Amey, manager of trunk roads across Scotland - including in Dumfries & Galloway - and gives a snapshot of how they try to balance a love of trees with the need to keep a road network open and running. What is the decision making process? What gets planted? What gets removed? It is estimated that Ash Dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) will kill up to 80% of the UK's Ash Trees - how do challenges like this influence the management of trees alongside our road network?
We'll be hearing from Amey's Principal Landscape Architect on the balancing act adopted, and what their work and findings can tell us about Scotland's Trees.
The event is delivered online through the Streamyard platform, with lots of opportunity for the audience to put questions to the speaker. Streamyard requires nothing to be downloaded onto your computer, we will send a joining link out to signed up attendees in the day before the event.
The event is hosted by Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands, a charity supporting trees, habitats and the people that depend upon them in the region. For more information, visit www.dgwoodlands.org.uk.
Event possible thanks to support from a wide range of partners, including The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Scottish Forestry, Woodland Trust Scotland, and others.