1) Undercut to avoid tearing.2) Making the top cut.3) The undercut stops the top cut from ripping.4) A stub before making the final cut.5) Making the final cut.6) The wound of the final cut.Photos courtesy of Lindsey Purcell. [...]

Intographics and Hans Linde/Pixabay In the early 1970s, when I started my career in the trees, my father told me, “If you can climb a tree, you’ll always have a job.” After 50-some odd years climbing, I can [...]

A few years ago, a woman called me because her hemlock above the parking area at her house was dying. She wanted to know why, and asked if there was anything I could do to save it. I had worked [...]

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 [...]