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  • Experiential Rigging Forces
    July 1, 2025

    “Feeling Forces” – Experiential Learning Focused on Rigging Forces

    By COREY SHEPARD, CTSP, and EMMETT SHUTTS JR., CTSP

    Teaching, training and understanding the forces generated while rigging trees can be challenging. Even as experienced arborists and professional trainers, we have had the experience of looking into the eyes of rigging trainees and knowing, “They don’t get it!” This [...]

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  • Highlining Over the Elora Gorge
    July 1, 2025

    Highlining Over the Elora Gorge

    By Joe Legate

    A couple of years ago, we were contacted to remove a linden tree growing on the side of a cliff at the Elora Gorge, on the Grand River about 70 miles west of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. The [...]

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  • Subcontracted Tree Care
    June 3, 2025

    The Ins and Outs of Subcontracted Tree Care Professionals, Part 1

    By AARON SCHAUER, CTSP, WITH ERIC PETERSEN

    This is the first installment of a two-part article. Part 1 looks at the benefits of being a subcontractor and working with subcontractors. Part 2, in a future issue of TCI Magazine, will look at how to become and [...]

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  • Crane-ASSISTED Tree Removal
    June 1, 2025

    Rocking Crane-ASSISTED Tree Removal

    By JONATHAN FOOTE, CTSP, CCO

    Over the years, cranes have become more popular in the arborist world. And as the need for the machine increases, so does our need for education and safe work practices. But it doesn't end there. Whether you [...]

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  • emerald ash tree
    June 1, 2025

    Ash to Ashes: Don’t Be Part of the Process

    By Christopher J. Luley, Ph.D.

    Billions upon billions of ash trees are dying or have been killed by emerald ash borer (EAB) in both urban and forested environments in the U.S. and Canada. (Photo 1) With time, the ash all will be returned back to [...]

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