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• Tree Warden Activities

in Epping Forest District by Kevin Mason

• Presentation for the East Anglian Tree

Wardens forum 6th October 2019.

Regular Epping Forest Tree Warden activities

• We have a number of voluntary

tree wardens who keep a watchful eye on trees within their own patch.

• Report on the condition of street

trees, make suggestions for new trees, and initiate community projects, with local schools, and help survey trees and hedgerows.

Other activities : Health benefits of trees

More activities: HEDGEROWS

• Planting
• Managing
• Surveying
• The Great British

Hedgerow Survey.

• https://hedgerowsurvey.ptes.org

Recording trees in our district. www.favouritetrees.org

What about futureTree Wardens?

Getting Schools involved

• Subjects covered include:-
• Biology – Tree Species

identification

• Geography- plotting the tree on

a map

• Mathematics - measuring and

working out how old and tall the tree is.

• History - what was going on

when the tree was planted

• School governors.
• After school clubs.
• Junior Tree wardens.
• Surveying the trees in the school

grounds.

Biology

• Species are identified Using the OPAL tree ID guide.

Oak tree in the school grounds

• Our tree is an OAK
• Its circumference is
• 3.93 metres
• Its grid reference
• is TQ44305 97726

Geography: Plotting the tree on a map.

Use smartphone GPS to get the grid reference co ordinates

Mathematics: how old is the tree?

• Our tree is 3.93 metres

circumference.

• To get its age as an open grown

tree divide by 2.5.

• 393/2.5 = 157.2 years old.
• So the tree started growing in

1862

Mathematics - How tall is the tree?

History what was happening in the world in 1860 ?

• Woodland trust.
• How to estimate the age of an
• ak.
• Queen Victoria
• New railways just been built

1856 Great Eastern Railway.

Trees removing particulates from the atmosphere. https://shiny-apps.ceh.ac.uk/pollutionremoval/

• Trees remove air pollution, and this has health benefits to society that can

be valued. Values vary due to levels of pollution, population density, and

• ther factors.
• This tool allows users to explore the change in value resulting from new

woodland planting, or removal of existing woodland, and its ability to remove PM2.5 pollution.

• The tool is based on new modelling by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

(CEH) and Economics for the environment consultancy (eftec). A more detailed explanation of the tool and assumptions behind the work in the button below.