• A tree crew with the city of Dubuque, Iowa, cleans up after a derecho passed through on July 15, 2024.
    August 1, 2024

    In a recent article I read, an 18-year-old was killed by a falling tree while cleaning up storm damage. How tragic! Injuries and death can happen to anyone. They happen to homeowners and professionals alike. We read about them [...]

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    July 8, 2024

    Photo by and courtesy of yunus-tug/unsplash. I’m not the man I used to be! At 67 years of age and retired, I still tend to try to work like the 30-year-old version of myself. My body tells a different story. [...]

  • October 1, 2021

    Dr. Alex Shigo I was on the Arborists Online Facebook page a while ago and came across postings from a couple of young arborists. They had just received their copies of Dr. Alex Shigo’s books, A New Tree Biology and [...]

  • October 1, 2020

    The sight that greeted the author at the first property he mentions in the article. Photo courtesy of the author. About a week-and-a-half after the August 10, 2020, derecho that moved through and devastated a large swath of the upper [...]

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