Metasequoia glyptostroboides at the Chinese Temple in Oroville, California. Photos courtesy of the author. The deciduous redwood tree, Metasequoia, was thought to be extinct when a fossil of it was first “discovered” in China by Shigeru Miki in 1941 or [...]

In the tree care industry, we have the tree people – those who get the job done – and the businesspeople – those who line up the job and run the business. Which are you? Photo credits: Sven Brandsma, Max [...]

If you’re going to be a tree climber, you’ll have to decide how far you want to progress down that road, and whether or not you have what it takes to do the tough jobs. And if you decide you [...]

I answered our business phone one day several years back. The woman on the other end of the line was not happy! She asked me if I knew who she was, and said we had worked for them before. “Your [...]

Before the fires burned a large section of Lahaina, Hawaii, in early August 2023, there was wind – lots of wind. ON THE COVER: Crew members with He-Man Landscaping LLC, dba He-Man Services, based on Maui, Hawaii, clean up a [...]