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		ATF events usually start at 10.00am for 10.30am and carry on into the middle of the afternoon. Please bring a packed lunch. Everyone welcome.

		Past Event Highlights ATF Visit -Shobrooke/Creedy Parks, Devon ATF Visit -Black Park/Langley Park, South Bucks.

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02 February - 21 April 2010 Quantified Tree Risk Assessment Ltd present A series of training as detailed		QTRA Training 02 February � High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 02 March � York, North Yorkshire 10 March - Lyme Park, Disley, Cheshire 23 March � Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire 20 April � Bath, Somerset VTA Training 11 March � Lyme Park, Disley, Cheshire 24 March � Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire 21 April � Bath, Somerset Licensed User Update (intermediate) Training 03 February � High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 03 March � York, North Yorkshire 17 March � Paignton Zoo, Devon For further details or an online booking form visit our website at www.qtra.co.uk

11 March 2010 Great Trees Recording Day Clowance Estate and Country Club		Praze an Beeble, nr Camborne All welcome! From 10.00 am - 3 pm Clowance is very easily reached by car via A30 to Camborne. Take the Camborne West exit. At the top of the slip road turn left to the roundabout turning left again into Camborne. Follow this road for 1.5 miles to the second mini island and turn right, follow this road for about 500 yards to the next mini island opposite the police station, turn right again onto the road towards Helston (signposted B3303 Praze-an-Beeble 3 miles). Follow this road through the village of Praze-an-Beeble, the Clowance Estate is then located half a mile out of the village on the right. flyer pdf (943KB)

12 March 2010 Chilterns Woodland Conference The importance of field and hedgerow trees in the Chilterns Green Park, Aston Clinton, Bucks		Over the last four years Special Trees and Woods Project volunteers have recorded hundreds of trees, researched woods and recorded stories across the Chilterns. The time has flown by and sadly the Project will end in the spring when our funding finishes. We will be celebrating the Project's achievements and discussing the lessons we have learned over the four years at this Final Conference. The Chilterns Woodland Conference costs �30 per head and includes lunch and tea/coffee. Friday 12 March 09.30 - 16.00 Booking is essential you may book by email woodlands@chilternsaonb.org or by writing to John Morris, Chiltern Woodlands Project, The Lodge, 90 Station Road, Chinnor, Oxon, OX39 4HA Further details pdf (123KB)

21 March 2010 National Trust Guided Walk �Tree Tales - Hear about our veteran trees� Osterley Park Isleworth TW7 4RB		Learn about some of our veteran trees in the splendid surroundings of Osterley Park Booking essential 020 8232 5050 Adult �5 Child �2.50 Sunday 21 March 2-3.30pm email osterley@nationaltrust.org.uk Tel: 02082 325 050

14 May 2010 Old Friends and New Enemies Climate Change and Tree Disease Nowton Park and Village Hall near Bury St Edmunds Suffolk		An Arboricultural Association, East Anglian branch, event with St Edmundsbury Borough Council. A one day workshop led by David Rose, Head of Tree Health Advisory Service for Forest Research, the Research Agency of the Forestry Commission. The morning session will be a presentation examining topical pest and diseases and the influence of climate change. This will be followed in the afternoon by a guided walk around Nowton Park, looking at pest and diseases amongst its wide range of fine trees. Price per person �50 including buffet lunch. To Book please contact Tracy Clarke�AA East Anglian Branch Treasurer c/o Tim Moya Associates, 96 Greenways Business Centre, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5QE Telephone 0845 094 3268 Email: tracy.clarke@tma-consultants.co.uk Booking deadline Friday 30th April 2010 Flyer pdf (210KB)

29 June - 02 July 2010 Bats in Woodlands Course 2010 Holnicote Estate Nr Minehead Somerset		A specialist course aimed at professional ecologists, arboriculture workers and ecological consultants. A three day / three night course based at the beautiful Holnicote Estate on the North Somerset coast 5 miles west of Minehead. Accommodation and meals will be provided in the Lorna Doone Hotel in Porlock. Indoor sessions will be held a couple of miles away in the National Trust Field Study Centre at Piles Mill, Allerford. Field visits will be made into local woods, where to date 14 bat species have been recorded. The course will run from Tuesday afternoon until Friday afternoon and the cost includes all meals and packed lunches and comfortable accommodation. There will be free time for relaxation and informal discussion during two evenings. The aim will be to demonstrate the range of roosting sites bats use in trees and to show participants how to survey and assess woodlands for bats. The tutors will be among the most experienced bat surveyors / researchers in the country with extensive knowledge of working in woodlands, led by Geoff Billington (Greena Ecological Consultancy) assisted by professional ecologists. You should plan to arrive for woodlands course on 29th June at the study centre to register for 15:45 at the latest. The course introductions will start at 16:00 on 29th June and will finish on 2nd July at c1200. Further information/itinerary pdf (65 KB) Spaces are limited, so for further details or to book this course please contact: Geoff Billington Mobile: 07748 742475 Email geoff@npennines.fsnet.co.uk






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