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Green Man Conservation - Welcome

Green Man Conservation are based in Brent Pelham, near Buntingford in Hertfordshire, and undertake professional Tree Surgery in Hertfordshire and North Essex for both domestic and commercial clients. We specialise in Planting Woodland and Hedgerow Planting nationally as well as Managing Woodland for the benefit of both our clients and our wildlife

We offer free quotations and honest advice, we strive to do our very best for our clients, the trees and woodlands in our care. We have a full understanding of the impact of our advice and work, and the by-products from our work are all recycled. We offer quality hardwood Firewood Logs, sustainable English Charcoal and organic Woodchip Mulch delivered locally in Herts and North Essex

A full list of our services can be found on the left of this page, and there are also pages to peruse at your leisure, that tell you more about us and more about an ever more emergent philosophy focussed on sustainable living

We hope you find our website informative and constructive; please Contact Us for any further information, or to arrange a free quotation for any of our services, or to comment on any aspect of our site

Also on this page;

• Green Man Conservation Environmental Policy

• Green Man Conservation Tree Surgery Recycling practice

• Green Man Conservation Woodland Management practice

• Green Man Conservation Woodland Planting Practice

• Green Man Conservation Wildlife Act and Conservation Policy

• Green Man Conservation Method Statement

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Weather

The one element we cannot control is the weather and in the tree surgery industry, one of the most dangerous jobs in the UK, safety is paramount. Frustratingly, when climbing is scheduled and we wake up to wind and rain work sometimes must be re-scheduled. Although forecasts generally cannot be relied upon, we have found metcheck to be one of the more accurate. Please find below a 7 day forecast based on the Bishop's Stortford area

            Green Man Conservation Environmental Policy

Green Man Conservation are absolutely committed to the proper care of trees, their treatment in the broader environmental setting and their interdependence with surrounding wildlife. While the good management of trees and woodlands throughout their cycle is necessary, it is our abiding aim to eradicate the negative environmental impact of tree surgery operations in all settings through the pursuit of best practice and maintaining consistent responsible working standards

·          Close to 100% recycling of all our tree surgery work related waste arisings

·          Clean, sustainable energy from Good Energy Ltd powers our office, yard and homes

·          Committed to sustainable woodland management

·          Correct ‘in-season’ pruning practice

·          Awareness of the Wildlife Act 1981 (as amended)

·          Basic wildlife surveying to avoid nesting birds, mammals and invertebrates

·          Local provenance, British native tree species recommended over exotics

·          Bio-degradable chain oils used

·          Brashwood habitat-piling

·          Mycorrhizal inoculation supports our new planting & remedial work

·          Low impact machinery

·          Responsible use of climbing irons

·          Truck & chipper run on bio-diesel

·         Close working relationships with Arboricultural Officers & Planning Authorities ensure Tree

       Preservation Orders, SSSI’s & Conservation Areas are sensitively approached

·         Tools, consumables & materials sourced from suppliers with responsible environmental policies

       wherever possible

·          Active members of the National Trust & Wildlife Trust

·          Raising & sharing awareness of best practice

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Green Man Conservation aim to Recycle 100% of Tree Surgery waste by-products

In practice this is not absolutely possible due to the need to destroy some diseased and rotten wood to prevent possible spread of disease pathogens. However the vast majority of the timber arisings from our work is seasoned and cut to log lengths to supply the local community with quality firewood delivered in Herts and Essex, while much of our hardwood chippings are composted to provide mulch for new planting where feasible. Where appropriate, brash arising from woodland management projects is chipped to the woodland floor to retain a site-specific nutrient base and provide invaluable invertebrate and small mammal habitat

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Green Man Conservation Sustainable Woodland Management Practice

Green Man Conservation work with woodland owners who consider themselves stewards of their woodlands, who take pride in regenerating and enhancing the woodland, and in ensuring its future and protection. We are proud to care for our native woodlands and are keen to support traditional woodcraft practices where viable

• Coppicing, including sensitive re-coppicing of over-stood woodland

• Deadwood clearance and making safe woodland areas (ideally, deadwood is retained onsite as a vital habitat, and safe standing deadwood is left as raptor posts and invertebrate habitat)

• Re-stocking woodlands to ensure a continued habitat and crop

• Felling, control and clearance of dominant non-native invasive species

• Timber extraction and processing

• Reversion of coniferous woodlands to deciduous

• Clearance and maintenance of woodland rides and glades

• Fencing and predator control methods

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Green Man Conservation Woodland Planting Practice

Where conducive with our clients’ aims, our preferred means of woodland planting and hedgerow planting, re-stocking, gapping-up and replacement planting is with local provenance British native tree species. This preference is based on an overriding desire to maintain the existing distinct character of the surrounding settings, so that all planting will eventually blend seamlessly. Planting British natives ensures the viability of the future habitat value of a project, becoming an extension of established habitat, not incongruous within it. Care is taken to survey current thriving species in the areas of proposed planting (along with soil configuration, moisture levels, p.h. etc), to safeguard highest survival rates possible

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Green Man Conservation adherence to Wildlife Act 1981 & Conservation Policy 1994

Green Man Conservation are aware of the relevance of the Act in respect of nesting and endangered species likely to be impacted by irresponsible tree operations. Where operations may affect nest sites or viable habitat, tree work will stop, a survey will be undertaken and the advice of relevant specialists be sought before any further work is undertaken

Where the unconfirmed possibility of a bat presence exists, sensitive tree work will be undertaken during spring or autumn. On ascending the tree, should suspicions be confirmed or further aroused, all work will be terminated. If in doubt, contact will be made with the Bat Conservation Trust

When working trees between March and late August, extra care is taken in respect of the possible presence of nesting birds. Should a viable nest be encountered, all work will stop immediately and a re-evaluation of the task undertaken and relevant advice sought. However, with mild winters and ever-earlier springs, a constant vigilance is required to reduce the opportunity of disturbance

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Green Man Conservation Method Statement

Please Contact Us to request a copy of our Method Statement, which includes our full Company Policy, our Environmental Policy, our Health and Safety Compliance, Ethical Policy, Working Format and Insurance details

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Please see Green Man Conservation Hertfordshire & Essex working range for clarification of our working area, or see below by village town and postcode for Herts and Essex Tree Surgery, Logs, Tree Planting and Woodland Creation services:

Green Man Conservation Tree Surgeons Tree Surgery Herts & Essex, Green Man Tree Surgeons Herts, Mycorrhiza inoculation, Firewood Logs and Organic Mulch, Hedge Planting, Tree Planting, Woodland Planting working range by Hertfordshire and Essex town and village;

Albury, Allen's Green, Amwell, Anstey, Ardeley, Arkesden, Aspenden, Audley End, Baldock, Barkway, Barley, Barwick, Benington, Berden, Birchanger, Bishop's Stortford, Bishops Stortford, Braughing, Brent Pelham, Broxted, Buckland, Buntingford, Chapmore End, Cherry Green, Chipping, Chrishall, Church Langley, Clavering, Clothall, Cole Green, Colliers End, Cottered, Cromer, Dane End, Dassels, Debden, Debden Green, Duddenhoe End, Essendon, Farnham, Farnham Green, Felsted, Ford End, Furneux Pelham, Good Easter, Graveley, Great Amwell, Great Chishall, Great Dunmow, Great Hallingbury, Great Hormead, Great Munden, Green Tye, Hare Street, Harlow, Hatfield, Hatfield Broad Oak, Haultwick, Hay Street, Hertford, High Cross, High Easter, High Ongar, High Wych, Hitchin, Knebworth, Kimpton, Langley, Letchworth, Levens Green, Litlington, Littlebury, Littlebury Green, Little Dunmow, Little Hadham, Little Hallingbury, Little Hormead, Manuden, Matching Green, Meesden, Melbourn, Much Hadham, Nasty, Newport, Nuthampstead, Patmore Heath, Perry Green, Puckeridge, Quendon, Reed, Reed End, Rickling, Rickling Green, Royston, Saffron Walden, Sandon, Starling's Green, Stickling Green, Sawbridgeworth, Stebbing, Stevenage, Spellbrook, Standon, Stansted Abbotts, Stansted Mountfitchet, Stocking Pelham, Takeley, Thaxted, Therfield, Thorley, Throcking, Thundrige, Tye Green, Ugley, Ugley Green, Upper Green, Wadesmill, Walkern, Ware, Wareside, Watton at Stone, Wellpond Green, Welwyn Garden City, Wendens Ambo, Westmill, Weston, Wicken Bonhunt, Willian, Wimbish, Wyddial

Green Man Conservation National Tree Planting, Woodland Planting, Woodland Creation, Hedgerow Planting, Hedge Planting nationwide, by county;

Greater London, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Isles of Scilly, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Clwyd, Dyfed, Gwent, Gwynedd, Mid Glamorgan, Powys, South Glamorgan, West Glamorgan

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