Living with Trees: A Common Ground Handbook
Britain’s woodlands occupy much less land than other European countries and our woods and trees are under threat – whether from development, from poor management or from simply not understanding the vital role that trees play in our lives – as witnessed by the recent large-scale felling of city trees in Sheffield. Trees and woods offer great potential to rebuilding our wider relationship with nature, reinforcing local identity and sustaining wildlife. There is a need to plant millions of trees to lock up carbon to ameliorate the effects of climate change, to help shade our towns and cities and bring shelter and beauty to places.
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Living with Trees: A Common Ground Handbook
Britain’s woodlands occupy much less land than other European countries and our woods and trees are under threat – whether from development, from poor management or from simply not understanding the vital role that trees play in our lives – as witnessed by the recent large-scale felling of city trees in Sheffield. Trees and woods offer great potential to rebuilding our wider relationship with nature, reinforcing local identity and sustaining wildlife. There is a need to plant millions of trees to lock up carbon to ameliorate the effects of climate change, to help shade our towns and cities and bring shelter and beauty to places.
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Living with Trees: A Common Ground Handbook

Living with Trees: A Common Ground Handbook

by Robin Walter
Living with Trees: A Common Ground Handbook

Living with Trees: A Common Ground Handbook

by Robin Walter

Overview

Britain’s woodlands occupy much less land than other European countries and our woods and trees are under threat – whether from development, from poor management or from simply not understanding the vital role that trees play in our lives – as witnessed by the recent large-scale felling of city trees in Sheffield. Trees and woods offer great potential to rebuilding our wider relationship with nature, reinforcing local identity and sustaining wildlife. There is a need to plant millions of trees to lock up carbon to ameliorate the effects of climate change, to help shade our towns and cities and bring shelter and beauty to places.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781908213730
Publisher: Global Book Sales
Publication date: 07/06/2021
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robin Walter is a writer, forester, arborist, environmental campaigner and musician. He worked as a woodland officer for the Woodland Trust for many years and contributed to Arboreal, Little Toller’s 2016 anthology of woodland writing.

Table of Contents

Foreword Dame Judi Bench 9

#Treestoo Richard Mabey 11

Manifesto For Trees 14

1 Out of the Wildwood 17

Our modus vivendi with trees 21

Trees are the natural state 22

Remnants of wildwood 24

Ancient woods 28

Ancient trees 32

A century of planting 36

Restoring the balance 42

2 Trees In Our Lives 47

Trees at home 55

Trees in Our streets 57

Trouble with trees 59

Learning to value trees 64

The urban forest 71

Local distinctiveness 74

Your local Trees 78

3 Among the Trees 85

Trees in art 88

Making with wood 96

Celebrating our trees 98

Play: Wild time in the woods 104

Lifelong learning 107

Natural Health Service 112

Towards a wood culture 117

Woodland Social Enterprises 122

4 Working With Trees 129

The F-Word 131

Preparing for climate disruption 135

Responding to tree disease 136

Dealing with pests 140

Taking a cut 142

The abundant forest 149

Forest stewardship 154

Building with timber 157

Woodfuel 163

Wood recycling 169

5 Into A Land of Trees 173

More trees and woods 176

Trees on the farm 179

Fields with trees? 183

Into the radical uplands 188

Planting new forests 192

Rewilding 198

Repairing the web of life 207

From conquest to belonging? 210

Glossary 214

Further Reading 220

Useful Resources 223

Index 226

Acknowledgements 231

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