Webinar: Thinking Arbs - Retrenchment (With Ted Green MBE, Reg Harris and friends)

Webinar featuring Ted Green, Reg Harris and friends discussing retrenchment pruning.
Reg Harris:
Reg has worked at a number of the country's top veteran tree sites. These include the National Trust's Hatfield Forest in Essex, where he has been involved with experimental pruning work to the large population of veteran lapsed pollards.
Reg Harris is the Director of Arboriculture at Urban Forestry (Bury St Edmunds) Ltd, which is an Arboricultural Association approved contracting company based in Suffolk. Reg has been an arborist since the age of 18, who now specialises in veteran tree work. He has worked at several of the most important sites in the UK for veteran and ancient trees, including Hatfield Forest, Sherwood Forest, Ashtead Common, Aspal Close and also several sites in Sweden.
Ted Green:
Founder member and President of the Ancient Tree Forum and Honorary Vice President of the International Tree Foundation. I was awarded an MBE in recognition of my work in conservation especially trees and fungi. I was awarded an honorary lectureship by Imperial College, University of London for my outstanding contribution as a technician to science and education. I was given the Arboricultural Association Annual Award for my services to arboriculture.
Recently Ted was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal by the Royal Forestry Society. He has been named one of the 100 Environmental Earth shakers of all time in the Guardian newspaper in 2006. He has worked for Natural England as Conservation Liaison Officer to the Crown Estates at Windsor and later became and remain their Conservation Consultant. Ted is also a regular writer, broadcaster and speaks regularly at international conferences on ancient trees, pollards, wood pasture, parkland and fungi.

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Spicy discussion.

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Should retrenchment branches be removed?