Ash Dieback Risk at Circuits

[Tal Aras]

The latest MSA News requests competitors to wash footwear, tires etc to reduce the risk spreading Ash Dieback, with particular attention to the various country side based sports.

However, given that a number of the circuits have quite a lot of trees and we often spend all day standing under them, maybe we should be worrying about this to.

I never got my I-Spy Tree badge, so does anyone know if any of the circuits have ash trees?

[ascarracinguk]

Originally Posted by Tal Aras

The latest MSA News requests competitors to wash footwear, tires etc to reduce the risk spreading Ash Dieback, with particular attention to the various country side based sports.

However, given that a number of the circuits have quite a lot of trees and we often spend all day standing under them, maybe we should be worrying about this to.

I never got my I-Spy Tree badge, so does anyone know if any of the circuits have ash trees?

Plus what the hell does it look like, maybe we could have a photo on each post so we can keep an eye out when we are there (between sessions or during a boring britcar race!)

[Woolley]

It looks like this:



Very pretty too. Pretty sure there's some of those at Brands and Oulton, although the latter is mostly oak and silver birch.

[ascarracinguk]

Originally Posted by Woolley

It looks like this:



Very pretty too. Pretty sure there's some of those at Brands and Oulton, although the latter is mostly oak and silver birch.

I meant the dieback lol....is it a fungus or something like that?

[Steve Fox]

I found this: http://www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.u...-fact-of-life/ but none of it looks to be very subtle, live leaf/dead leaf on that site but I just found this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20079657 which is a lot more like it.

[Piglet]

Originally Posted by Tal Aras

However, given that a number of the circuits have quite a lot of trees and we often spend all day standing under them, maybe we should be worrying about this to.

What "risk" are you actually worried about? That you might catch Ash Dieback disease?!

[NotLordPercy]

Something to add to the post briefing possibly? But having talked to the eminent tree surgeon S.Y. Camoore ,as long as you don't actually hug the tree or chew the leaves, humans should not catch the des ease.
I did not discuss elm disease or larch lap disease either with him, but I can if you like....

[FATNACKER]

Originally Posted by NotLordPercy

Something to add to the post briefing possibly? But having talked to the eminent tree surgeon S.Y. Camoore ,as long as you don't actually hug the tree or chew the leaves, humans should not catch the des ease.
I did not discuss elm disease or larch lap disease either with him, but I can if you like....

No Dont Percy!! However ive seen a few leaf munchers & Tree huggers in my time, OR was that Rug munchers???LOL

[NotLordPercy]

I think you are barking up another sort of tree or shrub ( or, indeed bush) of a completely different sort, Fatnacker!!

[Steve Fox]

At least nobody is lowering the tone

[NotLordPercy]

Heaven forbid........

[M Greenslade]

I once got Dutch Elm Disease in my wooden leg, does that count......

Bladders...

[NotLordPercy]

You just wouldn't take my advice ! I told you that an ivory one with a small wheel would suit you far better and be free from such troubles. And with your proclivity for ballroom dancing and bird watching ,such an appendage would be a better option.
And, horrors of horrors, I read today that the dreaded " phytophthora ramorum" is ,even as we sit here, striking at our fabled larch trees. Now is the time to put a guide to the UK deciduous trees on every marshals' post before someone starts showing the first signs of one of these pestilences and it affects their performance.

Perhaps BMRC should set up a separate branch to monitor any side-effects?

[Steve Fox]

Originally Posted by NotLordPercy

a separate branch

Oh, How could you....

[Tal Aras]

Originally Posted by Piglet

What "risk" are you actually worried about? That you might catch Ash Dieback disease?!

No. But I wouldn't want to turn up at Brands one day to find a load of trees cut down to prevent the disease spreading.

[Piglet]

Originally Posted by NotLordPercy

Y

Perhaps BMRC should set up a separate branch to monitor any side-effects?

You just can't leaf it alone can yew?

[Steve Fox]

Originally Posted by Piglet

You just can't leaf it alone can yew?

Tree puns are very poplar.
Shall we get them all out of the way then? Okay:

Hear about the superhero, 'Wood-Man'? He had an alder ego - known as Spruce Wayne.
Which tree reproduces lustily? Cedar.
Does the captain of a wooden canoe take the elm?
Fir trees are always warm.
NED: My Asian friend and his midget sidekick also love trees...
ED: Who's that - Wee Ping and Will Lo?
Don't climb a redwood - that counts as high treesin'.
Do embarrassed trees turn a shade of oakre?
"Tree bien! Unbeleafable!"
The jury in the deforestation case was sequoiastered.
The man who threw a Cabbage Patch toy at the spruce was accused of idolatry.

[Woolley]

Oak-ay, that's enough.

[skeee]

Surely if we just used imported Ash saplings then we wouldn't have to risk spreading the indigenous diseased stuff?

Ermm oh yeah!


But seriously, I shouldn't joke about the subject as Ash is such a rare slow growing plant.

Isn't it?

[EnglishPaddy]

rare slow growing

Nope, neither. Perhaps localised rather than universal. Fast growing, seeding prolifically, invades uncultivated ground.

This is going to happen and we will lose a good few but, unlike Elm we should get a decent recovery in a couple of hundred years. And in forestry/arboricultural terms, that's short term.

C.

[skeee]

At least action was taken immediately and there wasn't a decade of delay!




Sorry more sarcasm!
But I 'work' in Braydon Forest, not for the FC!