Sidmouth Arboretum @ Sidmouth Science Festival >>> "What have trees ever done for us?" >>> launch of valley-wide tree survey >>> Weds 14th October

The Science Fest is well underway:
Futures Forum: Sidmouth Science Festival: Sat 10th - Sun 18th October
Futures Forum: Sidmouth Science Festival: Sun 11th Oct: down by the sea >>> Interactive Science Trail ... Changes in Fishing ... Impact of Climate Change ... Beach Management Plan

On Wednesday, the Arboretum will be formally presenting the results of its tree survey:

A Reminder for Wednesday 14 October:

       2pm: Kennaway House: free entry

Kenton Rogers of Treeconomics will review the results of the valley wide Tree Survey undertaken last year.   

This is part of Sidmouth Science Festival

ALSO Rob Wolton of Devon Hedge Group will give a short presentation.

Look out for prints of Ewan Anderson’s Tree Drawings for sale.

The work has taken some time and involved schools across the valley in gathering data:
Arboretum’s tree survey boosted by grant - News - Sidmouth Herald

The Arboretum's pages already have a lot of information:

Our Trees

Every tree in the Sid valley is potentially an Arboretum Tree. We have started to log some of the more interesting trees in our database but are always looking for suggestions for more trees, and for more information about the trees we have already logged. If you have any new information for us, please get in touch.

The current list of trees can be seen in the Tree List 

and their locations can be found on the Tree Map

Immense thanks to all the volunteers who went out and completed the survey forms last year. The data was entered by Jon and Penny Ball in November and early December, Kenton Rogers despatched it over the wire to the U.S. Forestry Department for analysis. The results will be published in 2015. The sample plots can be seen on the Survey Plots map

Sidmouth Arboretum - Our Trees

The Herald has had a preview of the survey:

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