Christina Harrison (Hourigan)

Our fourth speaker of the Tuesday morning #arbconference Kenton Rogers presents insights from a series of interactive workshops entitled ‘Finding your way through the urban forest’ delivered across the UK over the course of a year. These workshops tried to guide tree officers and land managers through all this information, as well as offering a comprehensive strategy for effective tree, woodland and urban forest management. Kenton highlights the emergence of common challenges faced by diverse urban environments and the innovative solutions that have been collectively brainstormed. Along with examples of how participants have translated knowledge into actionable urban forestry initiatives.

The final #ArbConference morning speaker session sees Jill Butler make the case for the retention of old, historic avenue trees. 'Heritage trees and historic avenues: Retention v removal.' The removal and replacement of such trees should be resisted, especially all the trees in a short space of time, just to rejuvenate the design feature. This results in the loss of irreplaceable habitat on an unsustainable scale