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Plant a tree in ’73

22nd May, 2020 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment

I can just about remember “Plant a tree in ’73“. It was a government-sponsored programme to give schoolchildren and local

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The world’s loneliest tree… and its ironic fate

31st December, 201227th February, 2015 Matthew Chatfield 3 Comments desert, driver, drunk, niger, tree

A recent post on Damn Interesting drew the Ranger’s attention to a tree he’d vaguely heard of, but of which

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You want a treehouse like this.

1st November, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 1 Comment climbing, monkey-do, play, tree house, trees

Who wouldn’t want a treehouse like this? Community-minded arboricuturalists Monkey-Do built it in Arundel Square, London. To fully appreciate it

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Conker fights: official rules

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments

This seasonal submission from a Ranger’s Blog reader suggests a new historical and literary way to play the traditional game

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The veteran takes a final bow

12th May, 201215th October, 2015 Matthew Chatfield 3 Comments histree, oaks, trails, trees, veteran, walks

Walking in the leafy fields surrounding Quarr Abbey, on the north of the Island, the Ranger discovered a spectacular and

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Why I changed my mind and signed the ‘Save Our Forests’ petition

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 13 Comments

Hooray for the Telegraph, creakily mounting its well-worn soapbox to draw our attention to the forthcoming sell-off of Forestry Commission

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Save our Forests: this time we’re serious

12th May, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 4 Comments

At last, the Save our Forests campaign has developed some teeth, and, unexpectedly, a brain. From some rather unpromising beginnings,

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Dead bird
Trees 

Why do Naturenet readers want to kill everything?

12th May, 201023rd November, 2020 Matthew Chatfield 3 Comments trees

After the Ranger’s spam rant you’d have thought that he’d have had enough of ferreting in his server stats. But

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More cherry, vicar?

19th April, 2010 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments

Look at all those cherry trees. Lovely blossom, eh? Cherry is these days an almost ubiquitous tree in urban environments,

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Deathcap mushrooms: “The south-east Asian Problem”

20th March, 201012th September, 2016 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments amanita, asian, deathcap, edible, mushroom, mushrooms, poisoning

This week saw the inquest into the death of a woman on the Isle of Wight who ate the deathcap

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