Monika Buczko, CTSP, conducting safety training for one of her clients. Photo courtesy of Jack Morvin of Morvin Tree Pruning. Monika Buczko. Photo courtesy of Redwood Consulting Arborists. If you ask Monika Buczko what a typical [...]

A large-chip biochar, showing the carbon framework of tree rings. Photo courtesy of Zack Shier. Urban forests are critical to the resilience and sustainability of our cities and towns, offering ecosystem services such as temperature regulation, air and [...]

Reduction cut. All photos courtesy of the author. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines malpractice as “a dereliction of professional duty or a failure to exercise an ordinary degree of professional skill or learning by one rendering professional services, which results [...]

Arborist apprentices, SCA pre-apprentices, Openlands staff and Illinois Arborist Association instructors pose under the training tree from the Beginner Climbing Training. In 2024, TCI Magazine explored the growing role of Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs) in addressing workforce challenges [...]

Two Old Growth Tree Service employees work through a section of TCIA's Arborist Apprenticeship Training Program. All photos courtesy of Britt Felton, unless otherwise noted. At Old Growth Tree Service, training has never been optional. “You don’t get [...]