Craftsman and traditional green woodworker Martin Damen has been busy carving one of the first items to be made from the OneOak tree. He agreed to hand carve a bowl from one of its mighty branches and to donate it as a prize for our Guess the weight of the tree competition (read more). The…
We are delighted to launch our latest initiative today: TreeWatch. TreeWatch is a ‘citizen science’ project that aims, with the help of the public, to keep a watchful eye on the health of trees across Europe. It is being launched as a pilot for 2010 in partnership with the Tree Council and Earthwatch, and in…
Children from Bladon CofE Primary School visited the OneOak site last week – or as some children called it the ‘NoOak’ site! They explored the star-shaped tree stump and marvelled at how different the woodland looked compared to when they last visited: sun instead of snow, brackens and ferns rather than mud, and a large…
Dendrologist Daniel Miles, of Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory, has started work on the samples he collected from the OneOak tree when it was felled in January. Work in studying the tree rings to estimate the tree’s age and to look at its growth history is not yet complete. However, Daniel has revealed some stunning news: All…
In November we wrote about the children collecting oak acorns from the many beautiful oak trees around the Blenheim Palace Estate (read more here). 2009 was not a good year for oak seed collecting as very few trees had produced many acorns. We had feared that even the 50 seeds that we thought looked healthy,…
Preparations for the launch of our new initiative, TreeWatch, are progressing well. We will be working with a number of organisations over the summer months to test a pilot of TreeWatch. One of these is Earthwatch, who are generously supporting the pilot by offering their intern Nick Kirkby. Nick will be working with us during…
We took the OneOak project to the general public during the three day Art, Design and a Taste of Summer craft fair at Blenheim Palace over the three day May Bank Holiday weekend. Hundreds of people came to the stand to watch our film of the OneOak felling, to watch carvers from the Oxon &…
Proceedings of the ICF National Conference, sponsored by the Sylva Foundation, have been published online today. The subject was Forests and Energy.
We have been working for some on a major new initiative to help monitor the health of Britain’s trees using a ‘citizen science’ approach. We are pleased to announce that the initiative, to be known as TreeWatch, will be launched as a pilot in 2010. Several major partners have been working with us in developing…
After a filthy wet first day at the Blenheim craft fair, spirits are up at the OneOak stand as the sun is shining today. Interest in the project has been good and it is has been interesting talking to the many people who grapple with the notion that felling a 160 year old can be…
