This lecture was presented as part of the International Seminar Series in Forest Conservation on the theme "Inventory and Monitoring Approaches in Forest Conservation: from Tree to Landscape Scale", 4-25 November 2016. The seminar series was organised as part of the Master of Forest Conservation Program, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Canada.
Yard by Yard: Replanting After Asian Longhorned Beetle
Mollie Freilicher, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
Since the discovery of Asian longhorned beetle in Massachusetts in 2008, communities in Worcester County have lost over 32,000 trees, dramatically changing many neighborhoods. Since 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation has partnered with federal agencies and the Worcester Tree Initiative to replant trees, harnessing federal and state funding and developing a methodology for managing a large-scale tree planting program. This talk will cover hurdles, successes, and the lasting partnerships resulting from the replanting.
Girdling Trees to Create Snags and Coarse Wood Debris and to Improve Wildlife...John Lampe
Girdling trees and creating snags (dead, standing trees) is a great way to thin woodlots. We discuss how to do this with and without herbicide. Research indicates snags and coarse woody debris - all forms of dead wood - are vital to wildlife. The techniques for girdling trees include both mechanical girdles where the phloem layer is completely removed with a hatchet or other implement and chemical girdling where an herbicide is applied to the girdle. Some trees such as aspen can be girdled without using herbicides. Some trees such as red pine are tougher to kill and require applying an herbicide into the cuts. Another way to create a snag is to cut off all the branches. This method works for most conifers but won't work for most deciduous trees.
Queen City Canopy: Growing Charlotte’s Urban Forest Through Community EngagementArbor Day Foundation
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The nonprofit group, TreesCharlotte, is a new civic/private collaborative that supports the city council’s "50x50" goal of addressing tree loss in urban areas. Successful projects are developed through the work of dedicated volunteers, along with private funds raised to plant trees and educate the community.
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Since the discovery of Asian longhorned beetle in Massachusetts in 2008, communities in Worcester County have lost over 32,000 trees, dramatically changing many neighborhoods. Since 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation has partnered with federal agencies and the Worcester Tree Initiative to replant trees, harnessing federal and state funding and developing a methodology for managing a large-scale tree planting program. This talk will cover hurdles, successes, and the lasting partnerships resulting from the replanting.
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Girdling trees and creating snags (dead, standing trees) is a great way to thin woodlots. We discuss how to do this with and without herbicide. Research indicates snags and coarse woody debris - all forms of dead wood - are vital to wildlife. The techniques for girdling trees include both mechanical girdles where the phloem layer is completely removed with a hatchet or other implement and chemical girdling where an herbicide is applied to the girdle. Some trees such as aspen can be girdled without using herbicides. Some trees such as red pine are tougher to kill and require applying an herbicide into the cuts. Another way to create a snag is to cut off all the branches. This method works for most conifers but won't work for most deciduous trees.
Queen City Canopy: Growing Charlotte’s Urban Forest Through Community EngagementArbor Day Foundation
Known formally as the “Queen City”—but locally as the “city of trees”—the City of Charlotte has developed internal partnerships to foster a vibrant urban forest, including new infrastructure design guidelines and a strong partnership between city arborists and engineers.
The nonprofit group, TreesCharlotte, is a new civic/private collaborative that supports the city council’s "50x50" goal of addressing tree loss in urban areas. Successful projects are developed through the work of dedicated volunteers, along with private funds raised to plant trees and educate the community.
Workshop presented at the Wisconsin Conference for Local History and Historic Preservation, Wisconsin Rapids, October 11, 2013. Presenters: Sarah Grimm, Electronic Records Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society and Emily Pfotenhauer, Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager, WiLS.
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- A general framework for organizing events and campaigns geared toward exciting audiences and communities with little experience with urban forestry
- Pointers, tips, caveats, and potential downfalls to keep in mind to organize a successful event
- "Lessons learned" from three specific case studies organized by a government, nonprofit, and commercial company
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Geodesign is a powerful participatory planning method that uses stakeholder input and geospatial analytics to show the possible impact of design scenarios. It gets its strength in two ways: 1) from the diversity of participants—proving the adage that two heads are indeed better than one—and 2) from the power of spatial analytics, which allow the visualization of the world both as it is, and as it could be.
The presentation will focus on how geodesign methods where used to define stakeholder groups, clarify values, and prioritize criteria to help decision makers evaluate planning scenarios. Esri ArcGIS Pro was utilized to develop models—such as bikeability, walkability, ADA compliance, and more—that were used to both visualize and evaluate the impacts of each route segment. The spatial analysis resulted in an innovative solution that addressed both the concerns of both government and public stakeholders.
Attendees of this session will learn how to use geodesign as a systems approach for informed decision-making. More importantly, they will learn how to use spatial technology to guide conversations among diverse stakeholders to come up with plans that people understand and are happy with.
Watershed Ed, Trees and MWEEs (Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences) ...Mary Van Dyke
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Community Gardens Manual
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
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Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Companion Planting Increases Food Production from School Gardens
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
Lighting Talks: Innovations in Digital ProjectsWiLS
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This fast-paced session highlights new tools and innovative approaches Wisconsin libraries are using to create, share and preserve digital collections. Projects include efforts to collect oral histories and music memorabilia from community members, partnerships with local artists to reimagine digitized special collections, text mining of historical newspapers, managing Indigenous digital collections in culturally responsive ways, centralized digitization training and support for public libraries, and building LIS students’ skills in digital stewardship through hands-on fieldwork at small libraries, archives and museums around the state.
2013 Electronic Resources and Libraries Keynote
How the network changes the way we work, how librarians need to embrace their mission and step into the broader information ecology
Turning the Invisible, Visible: Imagining and Creating Emerald View Park
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Presenters:
Presenter: Ilyssa Manspeizer Mount Washington Community Development Corporation
Co-Presenter: Andrew Schwartz Environmental Planning & Design, LLC
Co-Presenter: Eva-Maria Simms Duquesne University
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PATH400 is a 5.2-mile walkable, bikeable greenway being constructed on public land adjacent to GA400 extending from the bank of Peachtree Creek northward toward the northern edge of Atlanta.
Not only does PATH400 make Buckhead more livable and create a sustainable commute option, PATH400 has broad implications for metropolitan Atlanta. This new greenway offers an opportunity to transform the future, by linking Buckhead and the northern suburbs to parks and trails across the region. In doing so, PATH400 can also offset some of the transportation and greenspace challenges presented by the region’s continued growth.
More than half of the money needed to build this transformative project has already been secured. One segment of PATH400 is already open and three additional segments are in various stages of permitting and construction. Livable Buckhead is leading a capital campaign to raise the remaining $9 million needed to connect these segments and create 5.2 miles of contiguous greenway.
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This presentation shows studying trees can contribute to meaningful watershed educational experiences. Using the i-Tree Design, a free, online tool to make simple estimations of benefits that trees provide: CO2 mitigation, air quality effects, stormwater interception, plus evaluating tree effects on a nearby building's energy use. Ideas are given for STEM and service learning extensions
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
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http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
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PATH400 is a 5.2-mile walkable, bikeable greenway being constructed on public land adjacent to GA400 extending from the bank of Peachtree Creek northward toward the northern edge of Atlanta.
Not only does PATH400 make Buckhead more livable and create a sustainable commute option, PATH400 has broad implications for metropolitan Atlanta. This new greenway offers an opportunity to transform the future, by linking Buckhead and the northern suburbs to parks and trails across the region. In doing so, PATH400 can also offset some of the transportation and greenspace challenges presented by the region’s continued growth.
More than half of the money needed to build this transformative project has already been secured. One segment of PATH400 is already open and three additional segments are in various stages of permitting and construction. Livable Buckhead is leading a capital campaign to raise the remaining $9 million needed to connect these segments and create 5.2 miles of contiguous greenway.
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The slideshow includes 46 images taken: 1. at the briefing session; 2. prior to the prescribed burn; 3. at the initiation of the burn; 4. during the burn; and, 5. the day after the burn (on 16 April 2015). You will see the results in the final few slides, with the ground nicely cleared, and no damage to the mature forest canopy.
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Download Paper at URL: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/254307252_The_development_of_even-aged_plantation_forests_an_exercise_in_forest_stand_dynamics
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The presentation includes many photographs taken in the field and supplied with acknowledgement by colleagues.
Further information on the Living Ash Project is available at www.livingashproject.org.uk. Also at the Future Trees Trust, www.futuretrees.org. General information about the biology and management of Chalara ash dieback is available from the Forestry Commission, www.forestry.gov.uk/chalara.
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Further information on the Living Ash Project is available at www.livingashproject.org.uk. Also at the Future Trees Trust, www.futuretrees.org. General information about the biology of Chalara ash dieback is available from the Forestry Commission, www.forestry.gov.uk/chalara.
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This presentation is a photo-essay based on a trip in October 2013 to the Biltmore Forest School site, which is now part of the Cradle of Forestry visitor and educational centre. The Cradle of Forestry is operated by the US Forest Service, and the forest is now part of the Pisgah National Forest.
The Cradle of Forestry not only tells the story of the beginnings of professional forestry education in the United States, but also presents the history and development of sustainable forest management to a new and diverse audience.
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Wilson, E. R. 2014. Cradle of Forestry in the United States. Woodland Heritage Journal 19:78-80
URL: http://www.woodlandheritage.org/images/stories/wh/journals_img/wh_2014.pdf
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Lecture 1: Cumbria's Top 50 Trees Project - the 360 Degree Toolkit Tree Recording Method - Iris Glimmerveen
1. The 360o toolkit tree recording method
Iris Glimmerveen
Project Coordinator
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2. Introduction
• Tree recording
• What is Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees
• Tree recording: why, what & how?
• 360o toolkit
• Questions and feedback
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Ian Jack – Forester
www.cumbriastop50trees.org.uk
3. Tree recording:
• Only when the purpose of the tree
recording is clear, can you determine what
needs to be recorded and how you’re going
to do it.
• So (project) background is needed before I
can get to the why, what and how
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Joanne Hunter – Manager Ginger Bread Shop
5. What is Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees?
• A project raising
awareness of individual
trees
• Local to Cumbria, a county
in North West England
• A brain child of Ted Wilson
and myself
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Rowan – Calbeck Common
Oak – Blencathra Hawthorn– Little Asby
Scots pine – Derwent Water
Cumbria
7. Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees concepts
• Focus on individual trees because:
• they fall in between the stools of woodland and
agriculture
• are the ones people come across most often –
street, garden, park trees
• Linking people with trees because then trees:
• become ‘personal’ – close to home
• will be ‘valued’ – less vandalism
• will be ‘seen’ – not taken for granted
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Duncan Darbishire – Photographer
8. Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees concepts
• Using competition format (Top 50 trees)
because it is easier to:
• enthuse the general public
• get message across to local media
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Marilyn Leech – Graphic Designer
9. Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees concepts
• Asking people to nominate their favourite
tree because it gives a:
• wider geographic and community spread
• sense of how trees are currently valued
• potentially greater variety of trees highlighted
• Making use of volunteers because then:
• forestry skills can be passed on
• it provides an opportunity for people to be active
outdoors with a purpose
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Jimmy Beveridge – Farm Worker
11. Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees time line
1 January 2016 – project start
21 March 2016 – project launch
• 28 February 2017 – nominations close
• 1 March 2017 – Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees exhibition
tours 6 districts for 14 days each
• 31 May 2017 – voting closes
• 15 June 2017 – project booklet and map produced
• 30 June 2017 – award ceremony & project close
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Kath Peters – Cinematographer
13. Tree recording: why?
• The purpose for tree recording with
Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees is to:
• record trees that are important to people
(snapshot in time)
• highlight the importance of individual trees
to those that look after them and their
funders
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Gillian Kartach – Parish Clerk
14. Tree recording: what?
• Data that is useful for Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees
• characteristics so that the tree can be recognised:
Species, photo – Core
• tree context: Surroundings – Social
• why the tree is important to the nominator: (local)
name, photos, story – Cultural
• why the tree is important to the audience: District,
history, story – Cultural
• can the audience find it: Grid ref, Access –
Cultural
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Jonathan Kaye – Hotel Owner Restaurateur
15. Tree recording: what?
• Data that is useful for Cumbria’s Top 50
Trees output
• Species, size, age, wildlife signs, plant life, trunk
health, tree & nominator photos, story, access,
location – website & booklet
• Species, tree photo, grid ref, access, location –
free leaflet with A3 size map to be distributed by
libraries and tourist information centers
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Louise Whitehouse – Personal Fitness Trainer
16. Tree recording: what?
• Data that is useful/meaningful for the end user
(tree officers, archivists of local councils and
state forestry service)
• compatible with their tree databases: species, girth
& height – Core
• tree condition: trunk, dead wood, leaf canopy -
Biology
• tree biodiversity: age, wildlife, shape, plant life -
Ecology
• easy to find: grid ref, access – Cultural
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Tom Speight – Journalist
17. Tree recording: how?
• record within budget
• using contractors is easy, but has predictable
outcomes
• using nominators & volunteers may notionally be
cheaper, but outcomes are not predictable
• volunteers are not professionals, they’ll need
training, patience and a realistic notion of what
they can achieve
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Heather James – Marketing Manager
18. Tree recording: how?
• Make sure your data is:
• within the capacity for the type of volunteer you
employ – interview, train and check for consistency
• logical/clear – group data, use plain English
• easy for the recorder – saves time in the field
• easy to transfer – website looks similar to
recording sheet, allowing computer to create a
‘comma separated value’ database
• tested – by both volunteer and end user
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Henk Glimmerveen – Aviation Consultant
19. Tree recording: how?
• Two equally important elements to
Cumbria’s Top 50 Trees survey:
• Record tree data
• Record why the nominator likes his/her tree, in
short: the story
• Both are captured in the 360o toolkit
• it encourages the volunteer/surveyor to look
both at the tree and its setting
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Jane Porter – Pensioner
20. Suzanne McNally
Photographer
Suzanne’s Surreal
Sycamore
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Suzanne first noticed this ethereal looking tree - at
one end of a frankly somewhat rough looking
plantation - three years ago. She gradually fell for it.
On her way to the station, or just on a walk around
with her camera, she would look at its odd shape
and smile inwardly. Being a photographer she
started taking pictures of this odd but surreal looking
Acer family tree; the results are stunning...come see!
21. 360o toolkit consists of:
• tools, supplied by project:
• 10m measuring tape – girth
• wooden stick, equal to volunteer’s arm length –
height
• microphone & wind muffler – story
• jumper, weather writer, pencil, data recording
sheets, folder, mileage & out of pocket expenses
– volunteer comfort
• training: tree measuring & identification, interview
techniques – volunteer confidence and
consistent data
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Robin Smalley – National Trust Volunteer
22. 360o toolkit consists of:
• mobile phone, supplied by volunteer:
• geographic positioning system app – location
• winter & tree identification apps – species
• camera – photos
• voice memo/recorder – story
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Patricia Ross – School Teacher
23. 360o data sheet – basic elements
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Richard Temperley Little – Writer
24. Dave Camlin
Musician
Borrowdale Yews
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A tree associated with death that is actually
one of the longest living plants on Earth
offers a spiritual experience for a West
Cumbrian musician.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ix_I2WZ2Q
30. Mencap Carlisle Grace Little's
crab apple
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A splendid crab apple tree, that has
witnessed the comings and goings of
aircraft during war and peacetime, was
bursting with fruit when we visited on a
glorious late summer afternoon.
33. Results so far
• website up and running
• 18 volunteers
• 89 nominations of which 28 are visible on
the website
• promotion postcard – 1,000 print run
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Peter Frost Pennington – Castle Manager
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35. Anticipated results and outputs
• Reached out to all of Cumbria Community
• through 20 talks in libraries and hard to reach groups
• media promotion traditional & social
• 100 nominations minimum on website
• Roaming exhibition held in 6 districts with:
• 50 tree images & accompanying stories (A2)
• 10 stories (audio format with close up image of nominator)
• 1 project video (already shot)
• Booklet (80 page) – 2,000 print run distributed to tree carers,
participants and interested parties
• Tourist trail map (A3) – 2,000 print run distributed to libraries and
tourist information centers
• Inventory of ±100 individual trees created and distributed
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Sheila Gregory – Chief Executive
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Veteran tree site assessment protocol applied @ Geltsdale, Cumbria
Field Measure Possible thresholds
High value Medium value Low value
Primary assessment criteria
No. of veteran trees >100 10-100
No. ancient trees >15 <15 0
No. trees >1.5m dbh >15 5-15 <5
Secondary assessment criteria
Extent of site >50ha 11-50ha 10ha or less
Tree cohort
continuity (assessed
by tree size)
At least 1 cohort per
100 yrs similar spp
and distribution to
veterans
Future generations
present but gaps in
cohorts/new
generations do not
reflect spp/
distribution of
veterans
Large gaps in
cohorts/veteran
trees only
Visible deadwood
(standing and fallen
& incl. rot holes,
hollow trunks etc)
Abundant Present but
evidence of removal
Little present
Ground vegetation Unimproved
grassland/semi-
natural woodland
Semi-improved or
significantly
disturbed
Arable, improved or
suppressed (bare)
Veteran trees near-
by (sites and trees
in the landscape)
Adjacent Within 1km >1km away
Diversity within
veteran tree
population (species,
form, age, situation)
Diversity in at least
three characteristics
(species, age, form
and situation)
Diversity in two
characteristics or
significant diversity
in 1 characteristic
Little diversity
Associated species
interest (eg lichens,
saproxylic
invertebrates)
Known to be high Some interest
known
Documented habitat
continuity –
historical continuity
Documentary
evidence of habitat
continuity (several
centuries)
Potential Interest likely to
increase in short- to
medium-term
Interest likely to
increase moderately
in short- to medium-
term
Interest likely to
decline in short- to
medium term
Other field measures
Density of veteran trees (over site) 7/ha
Species composition of veterans alder, rowan, birch, ash
Scrub (incl. bramble and hawthorn) hazel, hawthorn, apple, holly
Site management/threats year round low intensive cattle grazing
Water-bodies/wetland habitat wet ground conditions
Shape rectangular
Surrounding landuse hill sheep farming
Local pollution load low
Geltsdale,
important for
old trees
39. Alan Air
PR Manager
Squishy sequoia
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A giant sequoia in Carlisle’s magnificent
Victorian cemetery on Dalston Road
played a key role in Alan Air’s childhood.