Dealga started in research as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the College of Environmental Science & Forestry at SUNY Syracuse, where he joind a multi-disciplinary team researching ways to control the spread of Dutch elm disease through controlling the bark beetle vectors that spread the disease. The team, headed by the late Gerry Lanier devised the ‘trap tree’ approach to controlling the disease that proved very successful in the USA. He carried this work on at Salford University as a Forestry Commission funded Post-Doctoral researcher before being appointed Senior Lecturer in Arboriculture at Lancashire College of Agriculture & Horticulture, now Myerscough College.
While working as a lecturer he started a successful contracting company, S&D Tree Care and from that moved into consultancy through O’Callaghan & Associates Ltd, which developed into a very large Consultancy Practice, in which he sold his interest in 1998 to move into Utility Arboriculture with ECI. At O’Callaghan & Associates he developed the core skills and experience in planning and development and in the 1990s together with colleagues he developed and pioneered the concepts of Arboricultural Implications Studies and Arboricultural Method Statements, which have now become the accepted norm for trees on development sites.
He has advised on many very large projects including the development of Beaconsfield Motorway Service Area (MSA) at junction 2 of the M40; the development and construction of the Irish Golf Course at Fota Island Resort in County Cork; management of key feature trees at Loch Lomond Golf Course; management of the tree population on the Lancaster University Campus; Runway 2 at Manchester International Airport for which he provided ‘deposit evidence’; a Section 46 Application for a ‘Control of Land by Directions Order’ at Woodford Aerodrome in Cheshire; the change of use at Farnborough Aerodrome from MoD to Civil Avaiation; the Kingsmead Development near Northwich in Cheshire; The Steadings Development in Douglas on the Isle of Man, and many more.
He is ideally placed to provide expert and consultant services in the core business
Dealga’s Tree Consultancy provides quality advice, guidance and services on all matters relating to trees. We provide a highly professional and reliable service for managing the interface between trees, people and the built environment.
The importance of trees in cities, towns, villages and the countryside is recognised by all. Trees have become the great symbol of the environment for most people. Concern for the proper retention and management of trees has never been higher. Perceived threats to trees invariably result in public outcry. The strength of feeling people have towards trees, Forests and woodlands was clearly evident in the public outcry against the Government’s proposals to sell off Britain’s Forest Estate to private owners.
Our strengths lie in our skills in effective communication with home / land owners, local authorities, developers, architects, engineers and allied professionals as stakeholders in Britain & Ireland’s tree, forest and woodland population. We can provide advice guidance and assistance in resolving conflicts between trees and the built environment.
