Articles
From the field.
Notes from surveys and site visits across the South Lakes and Cumbria: what we found, and what it taught us.
Trees
Cumbria's tallest tree
A grand fir above Ambleside, measured by a climber at 57.8 metres.
Read →Surveys
Tree surveys: why bother?
How trees stay up, what goes wrong, and what the law expects of owners.
Read →Fungi
Giant redwood and honey fungus
A green crown over a dying base in a Victorian Lake District garden.
Read →Decay
Mature ash fails due to butt rot
Most of the stem was decayed, and the crown looked full and healthy.
Read →Fungi
A beech blows over in stormy weather
Decayed roots, giant polypore and what the research now says.
Read →Tell us about the trees.
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