It usually happens when you have one small job left to finish off the day – reduce the height of a maple tree to 20-foot clearance of overhead transmission lines. The fine line of proper arboriculture, property-owner whims, utility vegetation [...]

Pictures of browning needles and adelgids did not tell the full story. In early April 2023, I received a call from a Partners in Planting program board member I had served with. He was wondering if I would [...]

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. [...]

I don’t know why it always happens this way. Perhaps some kink in the time/space continuum? Even Einstein would be perplexed. Three-thirty on a Friday, end of the day, end of the week, by definition and circumstance the last climb [...]

Just because it is on the ground doesn’t mean it is harmless. Photo courtesy of Tim Basham. In the aftermath of the 1998 ice storm in Maine, while crown cleaning a large maple over a section of cemetery and road, [...]