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Artwork
Tuesday, March 16, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Interview: A Photographer’s Quest to Document the Oldest Trees Around the World »
There are some trees whose existence span hundreds, if not thousands, of years. For over a decade, photographer Beth Moon...
Monday, August 17, 2020
Apple plants timber "Tree Canopy" at center of circular glass store »
Apple and Foster + Partners certainly go to a lot of effort to lend each flagship Apple Store its own identity – from ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
When a 200-year-old oak tree died in Whitefish Bay, this family hired a local sculptor to turn it in »
When a Whitefish Bay family’s 200-year-old oak tree died, they hired a local sculptor who carved the tree’s decaying trunk...
Friday, February 9, 2018
National Exhibition of Botanical Illustrations Travels from NY to CA in May »
  One of the planet's most important and beautiful resources—its trees—will be spotlighted i...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Arlington tree transformed into enchanted castle by local chainsaw artist »
  WASHINGTON  - A decaying maple tree in Virginia has been turned into a work of art b...

ASCA News
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
ASCA Announces 2024 Board of Directors »
Forest Hill, MD (December 12, 2023) — The American Society of Consulting Arborists® (ASCA) installed its 2024 Board of Dir...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
ASCA Announces 2023 Board of Directors »
Forest Hill, MD (December 2, 2022) —The American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA) installed its 2023 Board of Dire...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
ASCA Announces 2022 Board of Directors »
Forest Hill, MD (December 13, 2021) —The American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA) installed its 2022 board of direc...
Thursday, December 10, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
ASCA Announces 2021 Board of Directors »
Rockville, MD (December 9, 2020)—The American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA) installed its 2021 board of directors...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Vine & Branch Awarded TCIA Safety Award »
Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) Safety Awards recognize “exemplary action” by awarding The Outstanding Company Cont...

Bark and Trunk Concerns
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Salt Damage in Wood: Controlled Laboratory Exposures and Mechanical Property Measurements »
Salt-damaged wood is common, but little is known about the mechanism by which salt water alters the wood structure. &...
Friday, June 26, 2020
The Protective Role of Bark and Bark Fibers of the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) during H »
The giant sequoia has developed effective strategies to protect itself against external influences in its natural environm...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Forests bouncing back from beetles, but elk and deer slowing recovery »
New research reveals that even simultaneous bark beetle outbreaks are not a death sentence to...
Monday, April 1, 2019
Shawnee gardening: The naked tree »
People take trees for granted until one falls on your house or car. You are miserably warm on a...
Monday, February 25, 2019
GLT's Grow: What To Ponder Before Carving Your Initials Into A Tree »
We’ve all seen initials, maybe surrounded by a heart, carved into a tree. The tree survives,...

Conservation
Monday, May 17, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Cedar Rapids Tries to Turn City of Stumps Into Tree Oasis »
Until one afternoon last August, Cedar Rapids had always been a lush, leafy island surrounded by a sea of corn and soybean...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Forests the Size of France Regrown Since 2000, Study Suggests »
An area of forest the size of France has regrown naturally across the world in the last 20 years, a study suggests. The r...
Friday, March 5, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Challenges to the Reforestation Pipeline in the United States »
Large-scale global reforestation goals have been proposed to help mitigate climate change and provide other ecosystem serv...
Friday, November 13, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Drones That Patrol Forests Could Monitor Environmental and Ecological Changes »
Researchers have created drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forest...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020   (0 Comments - view/add)
Trillion Trees: Opportunities to rebuild western forests »
Armed with the best science available, the USDA Forest Service and partners are preparing to restore forests ravaged by fi...

Environment
Thursday, March 25, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Engineers Make Filters From Tree Branches to Purify Drinking Water »
The interiors of nonflowering trees such as pine and ginkgo contain sapwood lined with straw-like conduits known as xylem,...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Arbor Day Foundation Names Hopewell Township Tree City USA »
Hopewell Township has been named a 2019 Tree City USA® by the Arbor Day Foundation in honor of its commitment to effective...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The street tree gets a smart makeover »
The condition of the urban forest goes beyond pure aesthetics. A leafy city is a cooler, cleaner city; it’s simply a nicer...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Pattern analysis of phylogenetic trees could reveal connections between evolution, ecology »
In biology, phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary history and diversification of species—the ''family tree'' of li...
Friday, July 10, 2020
What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees? »
By 2050, it's estimated that over 65% of the world will be living in cities. We may think of nature as being unconnected t...

Forests
Thursday, May 6, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
The Woman Who Looked at a Forest and Saw a Community »
In 1980, a 20-year-old silviculturalist hunched over a sickly young spruce planted in a clear-cut forest. She wondered why...
Monday, May 3, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
How To Experience The Only Lava Tree Forest In The World »
You’ll often hear Hawaii’s Big Island described as one of the “youngest” places in the world. That’s because new earth is...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Going to Extremes at HBEF »
There is growing concern that the frequency and severity of extreme weather events are increasing under the changing clima...
Thursday, April 8, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
Mapping North Carolina’s Ghost Forests From 430 Miles Up »
Emily Ury remembers the first time she saw them. She was heading east from Columbia, North Carolina, on the flat, low-lyin...
Thursday, March 11, 2021   (0 Comments - view/add)
A Silver Swining: 'Destructive' Pigs Help Build Rainforests »
Wild pigs are often maligned as ecosystem destroyers, but a new study has found they also cultivate biodiverse rainforests...

Hiring a Consulting Arborist
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Be careful when hiring someone to clean up trees »
Editor’s note: This column is being reprinted in light of the tree damage caused by Hurricane Matthew. I have fielde...

Leaf, Seed, and Flower Concerns
Monday, May 11, 2020
Important flowering plants for city-dwelling honey bees »
Trees, shrubs and woody vines are among the top food sources for honey bees in urban environments, according to an interna...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Want to help fight citrus greening disease? Take the leaves off that orange before sharing it »
Southern Californians are being urged this summer to help fight a disease that threatens to...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
European Ash Epidemic From Just One or Two Spores »
  Europe’s ash dieback epidemic could have been caused by just one or two mushroom-like frui...

Litigation
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Ten cherry trees to be moved feet away tomorrow to make room for NFL draft stage »
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The work to remove 10 cherry trees from downtown Nashville &...

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