While in Kauai, Hawaii, last February enjoying TCIA’s Winter Management Conference (WMC) 2022, I had the privilege of spending a great deal of time with Mike Earl. Mike, a CTSP and Certified Arborist, is owner of Old Growth Tree Service, LLC, an accredited, seven-year TCIA member company based in Eagle, Colorado, near Vail. Mike and […]
Usually I’m asked to speak or write about business efficiency in operations. This time we’re going to talk about my personal experiences in business during 2020, a year like no other. I’ve been in business for 33 years, and at the outset of 2020 I was in kind of a comfort zone. I had good […]
After 33 years in the tree care industry, I am still astounded by what incredible organisms trees are. I live in a land of giant redwoods and monstrous eucalyptus trees. There is not a day goes by that I don’t stop and reflect on these organic, living superstructures and how I found myself caring for […]
As children growing up living just 10 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, my friends and I all heard how the painting of the bridge would be a perpetual project. The painters began their work starting at the southern end and painted their way across a two-mile expanse to the northern end of the bridge. […]
