Seeing the wood for the trees: Why we shouldn’t mourn every felled oak

Trees are emotive, as the furore over the Toby Carvery oak and the Sycamore gap prove. But a political obsession with planting trees is getting in the way of proper maintenance of our ancient woodland, says David Cracknell It was last week’s row over the Toby Carvery oak that got me thinking again about the [...]