Suggested forestry issues for the government

periodictable

Out of curiosity, I wonder what issues in forestry practice/administration in Ireland that need to be looked at? Closing the door once the horse has bolted in the case of ash-dieback suggests that biosecurity needs to be re-evaluated. Any other issues?

Oldtree

Management of the urban tree landscape by a suitably qualified Arborist
Tree preservation orders that are actually used and protect trees.
More support for the Tree Council's work.
Rigerous implementation of the tree laws and enforcement......

$kilkenny

the fact that thousands of acres of commercial forestry is miss managed and the few trees that grow in these areas will never be worth anything. all it is is scrub land
thank you mister coillte

Oldtree

Oldtree wrote: »

Tree preservation orders that are actually used and protect trees.
Rigerous implementation of the tree laws and enforcement......

point in case, 520 tree felled (by mistake by a developer) :rolleyes:
where the department did all they could taking the issue to court expecting a €63 fine per tree and replanting order for the site,
but the judge only issued a replanting order for (where???).
I wonder why?

http://www.friendsoftheirishenvironment.net/paperstoday/index.php?do=paperstoday&action=view&id=11002

the developer has 17 planning application in Mayo since 1990, search here:

http://www.mayococo.ie/PlanSearch/mcc4/PlanningViewer/SelectPlan.asp

look at the GIS dataset map in backing docs for this withdrawn planning application in 2007, also includes an observation from the department, for the site involved in the court case, (overlaps another planning application)

http://www.mayococo.ie/PlanSearch/mcc4/PlanningViewer/displayafile.asp?filenum=07615&la=1

look at the GIS dataset map for this previous planning application (by another person) in 2004, which overlaps the lands in the 2007 planning application:

http://www.mayococo.ie/PlanSearch/mcc4/PlanningViewer/displayafile.asp?filenum=043664&la=1

the 2004 planning decision, dowloaded from the council website as a pdf file, for this application is attached below, look at reasons 30 and 31.

strangely this site remains unplanted:

http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=53.542791,-9.282702&spn=0.001995,0.004034&t=h&z=18