Emerald Ash Borer photo by Marianne Prue, Ohio Department of Natural Resources - Division of Forestry, Bugwood.org The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is changing its approach to fighting the emerald ash borer (EAB) [...]

Click below to listen to “Spotted Lanternfly: Get Ahead of It Now!” presented by Lucas Markley, Jon Schach and Julie Urban at TCI EXPO 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula, is one of the most voracious invasive [...]

The author applies systemic insecticide to kill ailanthus trees. All photos courtesy of the author. In a year overshadowed by a pandemic, I wasn’t sure how the tree care industry was going to fare. I was preparing to start my [...]

OK, here’s what we had to do: Remove two bent birch trees (leaders) that were overhanging a beach. We couldn’t just drop them into the lake, because we had no way to fish them out of the water. They [...]

The composite depicting various PHC practices is courtesy of Randy Cyr, operator of Greentree, a consulting arborist company based in Greenville, South Carolina, and a former TCIA member. This is the second of a three-part series by the author. Part [...]