POGONATUM : morphology, anatomy, reproduction etc.
Forestry perspective & experience of P ram in Wales
1. Forestry perspective & experience of P ram in Wales
David Edwards
Tilhill Forestry
Phytothreats Workshop
2. Disease progression
• Struck Wales 2010
• Dramatic initial intervention
• PORT established but failure to engage by PS
• NRW sat on hands for 2 years! SPHNs ignored – powers neutralised
• Disease out of control – could it have been controlled?
• CDZ & DLZ creation - damage limitation
• Stem injection
• Retrospective predictions!
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3. Sitrep
• Spread is slow – weather? biosecurity? felling? location?
• Threat of mutation in CDZ?
• Natural resistance?
• Healthy & diseased Larch removal being grant aided
• Quantity of Larch has allowed investment in harvesting & processing
• Licencing effective?
• Monitoring of Larch- flights - remote sensing – late detection?
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4. The future?
• Lessons learned – what went wrong (& right!)
• Prevention better than cure!
• Resilience – eggs in baskets
• Control working in DLZ?
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