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Millenium trees?

  • 04-05-2015 02:53PM
    #1
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭


    What happened to those trees the government gave us 15 years ago? I still have the green cert with my tree's number on it. How many are still there, how high are they, and do I get a new tree if my one died?


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  • #2
    Schadenfreudia
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    What happened to those trees the government gave us 15 years ago? I still have the green cert with my tree's number on it. How many are still there, how high are they, and do I get a new tree if my one died?

    That's a tough one!

    The trees were planted at conventional forestry spacing of 2,500/ha. That means as time passes some die, or get crowded out and suppressed by their neighbours.

    Then when their crowns expand to completely cover the ground they may be thinned out.

    An Oak woodland that starts with 2,500 stems will end up after 100 to 150 years with perhaps 25 trees, with other species like holly naturally regenerating in the woodland.

    So 99% of those Millennium Trees will disappear.

    On the bright side - you've contributed to the creation of a new oak wood :)


  • #3
    fergus1001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    Schadenfreudia wrote: »
    That's a tough one!

    An Oak woodland that starts with 2,500 stems will end up after 100 to 150 years with perhaps 25 trees, with other species like holly naturally regenerating in the woodland.

    thats 3300 i think you mean


  • #4
    Schadenfreudia
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    fergus1001 wrote: »
    thats 3300 i think you mean

    Tell me where I can see an oak plantation in Ireland with 3300 stems/ha?!


  • #5
    SILVAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭SILVAMAN


    Schadenfreudia wrote: »
    Tell me where I can see an oak plantation in Ireland with 3300 stems/ha?!

    That's the spacing for any grant-aided Forest Service oak plantation.
    In Germany you may find them at 0.2mx0.2m or 1mx1m.


  • #6
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    fiachr_a wrote: »
    What happened to those trees the government gave us 15 years ago? I still have the green cert with my tree's number on it. How many are still there, how high are they, and do I get a new tree if my one died?
    Website
    http://www.millenniumforests.com/

    607ha planted in 16 forests does it say on your cert which forest?


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  • #7
    Schadenfreudia
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    SILVAMAN wrote: »
    That's the spacing for any grant-aided Forest Service oak plantation.
    In Germany you may find them at 0.2mx0.2m or 1mx1m.

    Indeed it is. But the Millennium forests were not grant aided under current rules!


  • #8
    SILVAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭SILVAMAN


    Schadenfreudia wrote: »
    Indeed it is. But the Millennium forests were not grant aided under current rules!

    NO they were planted under the old rules where the spacing was the same.
    It was a PR job....


  • #9
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    does it say on your cert which forest?
    Shelton, Wicklow. Does anyone know this area? If I PM someone the tree number can they check if it's still there? Would the number from the cert be on the actual tree?


  • #10
    lazeedaisy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭lazeedaisy


    http://www.millenniumforests.com/locationsite_shelton.html

    http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/ive-finally-found-my-millennium-tree-26840141.html


    Interesting article. I had forgotten about the trees.


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