It’s not all anti-social media
The blame for some of society’s ills has been laid at the feet of social media. Cyber-bullying, Brexit, the success of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the dissemination of nudie photographs;
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trees
You want a treehouse like this.
Who wouldn’t want a treehouse like this? Community-minded arboricuturalists Monkey-Do built it in Arundel Square, London. To fully appreciate it you need to check out the photos showing more detail.
Read moreThe veteran takes a final bow
Walking in the leafy fields surrounding Quarr Abbey, on the north of the Island, the Ranger discovered a spectacular and sorry sight: a great veteran field-oak had succumbed to the
Read moreWhy do Naturenet readers want to kill everything?
After the Ranger’s spam rant you’d have thought that he’d have had enough of ferretting in his server stats. But no. Inspired by the popular “How you got here in…”
Read moreChat up line
There was a time, way back, when the Virtual Ranger really was a ranger – complete with Land-Rover, chainsaw and radio. An enjoyable feature of that status was the number
Read moreFighting dogs are destroying our urban trees
Dogs bred to fight, and dogs taught to attack people, are a serious problem in this country. It’s even attracting the attention of legislators. Earlier this year in a debate
Read moreOliver Rackham – Woodlands
Book reviews by guest blogger Ray Harrington-Vail of the Footprint Trust Anyone who has a deep interest in the history of Britain’s woodlands and landscape would have read at least
Read moreNew species of tree discovered in UK
This is a one-in-a-lifetime headline. The trees of the British Isles are pretty well known, and the list of native British trees is not often revised. Now there is one
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Killed by a falling tree: what are the chances?
The Ranger worked as a Tree Officer for some months not too long ago, and got quite an insight into the arcane world of TPOs and irate householders. A bit
Read moreTree graffiti
The Ranger was patrolling around a very obscure part one of the sites he works at today, when he came across a huge beech tree with some intriguing inscriptions upon
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