Photo 1. Canker rots typically decay the heartwood and sapwood before they kill the bark and cambium and cause cankers. Note the depressed face of the stem, and that the decay tree has reacted by forming wound wood on [...]

The Rick's Certified Arborists crew. “But what are you going to do during the winter?” was the question that always followed the words of encouragement from friends in the industry after we first started Rick’s Certified Arborists. While [...]

Distribution, Biology and Management of a Fast-Moving Invader Photo 1. Adult box tree moths have white bodies with brown heads. Wing markings are variable, often with large white central patches bordered by brown margins on both fore and hind [...]

When a woman calling herself GoldenLarch logged into the TreeBuzz arborist forum in late 2020, she wasn’t looking for applause – she was looking for honesty. At 28, after leaving a customer-service career and earning a horticulture certificate, she’d fallen [...]

Every industry breeds its own folklore. In tree work, cutting, hinging and rigging theories might make for some of the loudest campfire stories of all. On a TreeBuzz thread dealing with these topics, a post about “rip cuts” lit up [...]