{"id":7041,"date":"2015-08-27T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2015-08-27T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T08:00:07","slug":"tree-nursery-builds-own-reservoir-to-combat-climate-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/tree-nursery-builds-own-reservoir-to-combat-climate-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree nursery builds own reservoir to combat climate warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental change \u2012 meaning any change or disturbance of the environment caused by human influences and\/or natural ecological processes \u2012 seems to be impacting Britain\u2019s trees and forests with increasing frequency and severity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7052\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/bws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7052\" class=\"wp-image-7052 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Oakover-reservoir-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Oakover Nurseries reservoir\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakover Nurseries reservoir<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The changing climate has already required <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakovernurseries.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakover Nurseries<\/a>, a tree nursery based in south-east England, to take adaptation measures. Manager Brian Fraser explained<em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThree years ago we increased our field irrigation capacity by investing in a new five million gallon reservoir. The idea being that this would enable us to better manage drier springs and drought conditions by applying water when the plants require it to support continued plant growth.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>What do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span> think about environmental change?<\/li>\n<li>Have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span> been affected by environmental change?<\/li>\n<li>What are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span> doing about making our trees and forests more resilient to environmental change?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/bws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLEASE TAKE THE SURVEY!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A national survey is aiming is to help understand progress in awareness and actions in adapting to environmental change among woodland owners and managers (including agents), tree nursery businesses, and forestry professionals.<\/p>\n<p>The information gathered will be used by organisations, policy makers and researchers to help improve the resilience of the nation\u2019s forests. The results will inform the government\u2019s National Adaptation Programme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/bws\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6898\" src=\"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BritishWoodlandsSurvey2015-200x79.png\" alt=\"British Woodlands Survey 2015\" \/><\/a>The British Woodlands Survey 2015 on Resilience is supported by a very wide number of partners, with funding provided by the Forestry Commission and the Woodland Trust. It is hosted and co-ordinated by the Sylva Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The survey is live from July 31st to September 15th 2015. Take the survey: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/bws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sylva.org.uk\/bws<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental change seems to be impacting Britain\u2019s trees and forests with increasing frequency and severity. One tree nursery has built its own 5 million gallon reservoir to cope with climate warming. Are you planning for environmental change? What are your views?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Oakover-reservoir-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}