Report Finds IVM Can Be Greener and Less Costly for ROW Management
A team led by consultant John Goodfellow has developed an economic model to show that integrated vegetation management, or IVM, is both cheaper and greener than simply mowing utility rights of way. When we flick on the lights, we give little thought to the complex network of generating stations and power lines that instantly supplies […]
Plant That Tree Righteously!
A wise person once said (or said something to the effect of), “When people plant trees under which they may never sit, then you know that civilization has arrived.” Tree planting. I know. It’s not sexy. There are so many shiny new toys in the removal and pruning facets of tree care that the ole’ […]
Aesthetics … for Better or Worse?
Aesthetics is the study of beauty, form and the correct placement of objects. To the uninformed person, the practice of pruning trees relies on an idea of beauty that has very little relevance to a tree’s health and longevity. By the way, “idea” is a word that comes from the root word “ideal.” Trees are […]
Looking at the Elements that Make Up a Rigging System
In this article, we’ll take some foundational rigging concepts and reintroduce them from a new perspective. Some of this information is well known and almost common knowledge, but some of it, I find, gets missed in early training or overlooked in the daily grind. Some of it could help us avoid the abuse we sometimes […]
Update on EAB: Stem Injections Can Save Some Heavily Infested Trees
Have you noticed an increasing number of large dead trees along roadways, and in wooded areas near you? Many of these are green or white ash trees, and they are being killed by an invasive pest first spotted and identified in the Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario, Canada, area in 2002, and now rapidly spreading throughout the […]