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Contents
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Welcome - Setting the Scene
Professor Melvyn Jonesand Dr Ian D. Rotherham,Sheffield Hallam University
Working and Walking in the footsteps of Ghosts 1-2
Keynote Addresses
Professor Paul Buckland,University of Sheffield
Forests and Clearings: an entomological history
Professor David Hey, University ofSheffield
Woodland Transport: the evidence for Derbyshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire 4-9
Dr Delia Hooke, University of Birmingham English Woodlands: Historical Landscapes and Archaeology 10
Professor Melvyn Jones, Sheffield Hallam South Yorkshire's Ancient Woodlands: Past, Present and FutureUniversity
11-24
Dr Richard Muir, University of Aberdeen Pollards and Parkland 25
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Dr George Peterken Historical diversity in the Wye Valley Woods 26-28
Dr Oliver Rackham, University of The Ghosts at the Ends of the Earth: Tree-Land in Four Hemispheres 29Cambridge
Dr John Rodwell, University of LancasterBringing the ghost to Life: woodland ecology and landscape history 30-31
Professor Chris Smout, University of St 'To stand in them is to feel the past1: Pinewoods and Birchwoods in the Scottish Uplands 32-36Andrews
Dr Frans Vera, Netherlands State Forestry Oak, the footmark of ghosts 37-40Service
Professor Charles Watkins, Duncan The Transformation of Sherwood Forest in the twentieth Century 41Kottler and Chris Lavers, University ofNottingham
Dr Derek W. Yalden, University of The use of woodlands by mammals - past and present 42-44Manchester
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Ecology, Planning and Management - Parallel Sessions
Dr Keith Alexander, Ancient Tree Forum Ancient trees in cultural landscapes - their importance as hosts to relict old forest species 45
Dr Hilary Allison, Policy Director, From Wildwood to Concrete Jungle? - A contemporary attitude to ancient woodland 46-54Woodland Trust
Philip Corney1, M.G. Le Due1, S. Smart2 & Modelling Canopy Composition and Ground Vegetation in British Woodlands: TheR.H.Marrs!> lUniversity of Liverpool,! Conservation Implications 55Centre for Ecology & Hydrology,Merlewood
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Andrew Cowan, Arborecology Decaying Wood - Recycling within Arboreal Ecosystems 56-61
Tom Curtis, Woodland Trust
Althea Davies and Dr Melanie Smith,University of Stirling
Bill Ely, Yorkshire Naturalist's Union /Rotherham MBC
Restoring Planted Ancient Woodland Sites (PA WS): conversion to native woodland orconservation of ancient woodland communities? 62
Application ofPaleoecology to the restoration of ancient woodland in Northern Scotland 63
Biomonotony 64
Dr Oliver Gilbert, Sheffield University The Effect of Urbanisation on Ancient Woodlands 65
Ted Green 'Working Trees' and Ancient Oaks in Parkland 66-67
Graham Haddock, Planning &Partnership Manager for the Yorkshireand the Humber Conservancy
Managing Ancient Semi Natural Woodlands for the Society of Today 68
Nicklas Jansson, County AdministrationBoard of Ostergotland, Sweden
The work with old trees and saproxylic beetles in Ostergotland, Sweden 69-70
Dr Keith Kirby, English Nature Characterization of the woodland flora and woodland communities in Britain using EllenbergValues and Functional Analysis 71
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Dr James Littlemore, Moulton College Woodland Recreation and Conservation: Compatibility or Conflict? 72
Wayne Martindale, Askham BryanCollege York
Forests, Fields and Ecosystem Services - interfacing agriculture and forestry in the UK
Ed Mountford, Oxford Forestry Institute General patterns of stand change in natural woodland reserves in Britain 75-80
Helen Read, Corporation of London Managing an Ancient Woodland with high visitor pressure 81
Dr Peter Shaw and Clare Ozanne,University of Surrey Roehampton
Impacts of alien conifer planting on soil & canopy invertebrate biodiversity in ancientwoodland sites 82
Hakan Slotte, SLU Swedish Agriculture Estimate of the Swedish leaf-hay harvestUniversity
83
Richard Smithers, Woodland Trust Space for nature: landscape-scale action for woodland biodiversity 84-85
Kris Verheyen, Glenn R. Guntenspergen,Bernard Biesbrouck and Martin Hermy,Laboratory for Forest, Nature and Landscape Research,University of Leuven, Belgium. Patuxent Wildlife ResearchCenter. U.S. Geological Survey. Duhith, MN, USA
Slow species in a fast landscape: Distribution patterns of 'ancient forest plant species' in adynamic landscape 86
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Dr Paul Warde, University of Cambridge Woodland management and woodland structure in south-western Germany, ca. 1500-1700
87-96
Peter Watson, Deer Initiative The Deer Initiative and woodland management 97
Richard W. Wilson, Capreolus Practical Issues of Deer Management within the Hallamshire Wooded Landscape 98-101Countryside Management Services
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
History, Archaeology and Management - Parallel SessionsDr Paul A. Ardron,
Dr Nicola Bannister,
Jill Butler, Woodland Trust
Eva Casson du Mont1, Fiona Watson2 &Eunice Simmons1
Cristina Dias Joanaz de Melo, Universityof Europe
Neville Fay and Ben Rose, TreeworkEnvironmental Practice
Dr Cathy Groves, Sheffield University(English Heritage)
Dr Valerie Hall, Queen's UniversityBelfast
John Knight, Dept. Archaeology,University of Bristol
To intervene or not: Ents, People and a hundred years of 'Wildwood'
Woodland Archaeology of the South East
Ancient trees: 'They have stood witness to our island's history....'
102
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Working with Parchment and Megabytes: challenging the documentary evidence for woodlandin medieval Scotland 105Diana's torments: forests and hunting as a tool for social and political control in Modern Age
106-117
The Importance of Surveying Veteran Trees: An emerging crisis in old tree populations
Tree-rings and woodlands
The status of woodland over the last millennium -fresh evidence from tephra-datedpolynological studies in Ireland
The archaeological relationship of ancient woodland and the West Wansdyke
118-121
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Jan Oosthoek, The British Forestry Commission and ancient woodlands during the twentieth century 148
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Professor Brian K Roberts, University ofDurham
Mark Robinson, Oxford University
Helen Shaw, University of Stirling
Dr Peter Szabo, Central EuropeanUniversity Hungary
Richard Tipping and Robert McCulloch,University of Stirling
Nicky J. Whitehouse, and Fraser J.Mitchell,
Tim Yarnell, Forestry Authority
Embracing Spaces: Wood Pastures, Open Pastures and Historical Geography 149-150
The Origin of the Post-Glacial Woodland Beetle Fauna of Britain and the Changes broughtabout by Neolithic Activity 151
Woodland History in East Glen Affric from fine resolution pollen analysis 152
Coppice Woods in Medieval Hungary 153
Woodland Management: How much can we Identify in LongTerm Pollen Records 154
Long-term perspectives on vegetation dynamics in forested environments 155
If you go down to the woods today: woods, forests and the historic environment in the 21stcentury 156
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Case Studies and Issues - Parallel Sessions
Dr Mauro Agnoletti and Dr Gil Latz,University of Florence
The Dynamics of Chestnut Orchards in the Evolution of Tuscan Landscape between 1832 and2000 157-158
Ben Allen, Manchester MetropolitanUniversity
The Ancient Woodlands of Greater Manchester distribution and characteristics in a dynamicmatrix 159
Gerry Barnes, Norfolk County Council A Brief History of Wood Pasture and Woodland in Norfolk 160-162
Nigel Cooper1 and David Lonsdale2 Veteran Trees: A Study in Conservation Motivation 163
Krys Craik, South Yorkshire ForestPartnership
'Working ancient woodlands in South Yorkshire' - how ancient woodlands are being broughtback to life with the involvement of land owners, local communities and the revival of timberindustries 164-165
Professor Francis T. Evans The Age of Wood 166-175
Rodney Helliwell,Consultant in silviculture, arboriculture,and plant ecology
Continuous Cover Management 176-179
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Dr Peter R. Hobson and Nigel Cooper,Otley College and University of Essex
Impacts of management past and present on the structure of forests, and the implications tobiodiversity conservation with a Canadian case study 183
Michael Innerdale, Severn Trent Water
Dr Rob Lambert, University ofNottingham
David Lovelace
Nigel Lowthrop, Hill Holt Wood (Ltd)
Martin Nowacki, Doncaster MBC
Professor Donald Pigott, University ofLancaster
Xavier Rochel, University de Nancy,France
Upper Derwent Valley - A case study on archaeological protection and an innovative future
184
'Therapy of the Green Leaf: the development of woodland recreation in the twentieth century185
Bringewood Chase, Oakley Park and the Haltons 186-187
Economic, environment, social, the eternal triangle. The tale of an eco-entrepreneur 188
A Short History of a Small Ancient Woodland 189
Yarncliff Wood, Nether Padley near Sheffield 190
Promoting Species: forest composition policies in the Vosges mountains - France from thesixteenth to the eighteenth centuries 191
Nick Sellwood1 and Jim McNeill2, Surveying the wood for the trees: the archaeology of Sheffield's Heritage Woodlands 192'Trees and Woodland Team Sheffield City Council and 2SouthYorkshire Archaeology Service
Bob Taylor, Sports Turf Research Institute Trees and Tees - managing woods and golf 193
Johnathan Wordsworth, CSA Identifying and protecting archaeology in the woodland environment in Northern ScotlandArchaeological Adviser on Rural Land Use 194-196
Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts. May 2003
Other Posters and contributions
Sarah Dalrymple, University of Aberdeen Distribution of Small cow-wheat Melampyrum sylvaticum
Kate Lloyd-Bostock, University of Reading Creating Habitats in Botanic Gardens as a Tool for Environmental Education
197-198
Dr Jenny Moore
Tanya Ogilvy, Edinburgh University
Charcoal: the energy of production
Were woodlands in the west of Argyll, Scotland once more rich in their woody plant speciescomplement? Observations and Extrapolations
Eileen Reilly, Queens University Belfast Understanding Woodland Dynamics during the Historic Period in Ireland and its effect onnative woodland entomo-fauna: issues for forthcoming research
Thomas Remiarz
Philip Sansum
Ingrid Sarlov
The Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust
Sian Thomas and Richard Smithers,Woodland Trust
Echoes ofElmet: Landscape History Research and Habitat Restoration
Nature and Nurture in the Development of Western Oakwoods
Management Plans as a tool to achieve multiple goals in landscape planning
Resuscitating ancient trees in PA WS
Making the most of Ancient Woodland Archaeology - Coedy Gopa
Tracing Northern Ireland's woodland past
