Tag: teaching

iTree Eco: second practical training session

Post author By birminghamtreepeople
Post date 07/07/2023
Categories In Information, Training, Treevents

West Midlands commissions large-scale study of its tree population

Post author By birminghamtreepeople
Post date 05/07/2023
Categories In Information, Planning, Treevents

What are we doing? Citizen science groups and volunteers, engaged through local urban forest volunteer schemes, will play a significant role in a new study of the West Midlands urban forest. The study, commissioned by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), will investigate and record the composition, condition, ecosystem services, replacement value, and many other […]

iTree Eco: first practical training session

Post author By birminghamtreepeople
Post date 03/07/2023
Categories In Information, Training, Treevents

To kick-start the July white rabbit, the iTree Eco survey that Birmingham TreePeople are undertaking (in conjunction with Treeconomics, Barton Hyett Associates Ltd and Forest Research), had its first surveying training session with the volunteers at Winterbourne House and Gardens. Over one hundred people have signed up to be a part of this nationwide survey, […]

Let’s talk about trees: How did it go?

Post author By birminghamtreepeople
Post date 27/06/2023
Categories In Free Training, Information, Training, Treevents

This is the first time that BTP have attempted a community engagement outreach like this event, a year after we organised a fruit orchard planting in the same location; we were welcome back to Birmingham Central Mosque, on Monday 26th June, with open and hospitable arms. This Mosque was opened in the 1970’s, and Birmingham’s […]

Let’s talk about trees

Post author By birminghamtreepeople
Post date 20/06/2023
Categories In Free Training, Information, Training, Treevents

Interested in trees, want to know more, and how you can help look after trees in your local area? Then come and join us for a chat and a cup of tea – and let’s talk about trees! Don’t forget to drop in and see the Birmingham TreePeople, on Monday 26th June at Birmingham Central […]

BIFOR

Professor Rob MacKenzie, head of the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFOR) at The University of Birmingham, talks to BTP Chair Tonia Clark, about its pioneering research into climate change and woodlands. There’s also a short piece on the horse chestnut, with its impressive flower spikes.