The International Society of Arboriculture is the Secretariat for ANSI Z133 safety standard. The committee just completed a revision cycle for the standard that should be published this Fall. The committee’s procedure is to reformulate the committee that will serve [...]

Why?” Such a simple question, but if you spend any time around a child, you will soon discover it may be one of the most complex and difficult questions to understand, and the complete answer to “Why?” is always changing, [...]

Sketch by Jerry King. I am an artist. Trees are my medium. Many years ago, my grandfather instructed me to distinguish between the work of craftsmen, or craftswomen, and artisans and artists. Craftspersons’ work, he said, exhibits a fair understanding [...]

Climate change isn’t going away, at least not in our lifetime, and global temperatures will continue to rise. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecast is for a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century. [...]

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