Industry News https://www.asca-consultants.org/news/default.asp Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:15:59 GMT Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:57:10 GMT Copyright © 2018 American Society of Consulting Arborists 5 times people used trees to change the world https://www.asca-consultants.org/news/news.asp?id=405418 https://www.asca-consultants.org/news/news.asp?id=405418

Here are five stories celebrating trees and the people who love them.

 

This Teenager Has Planted More Than 14 Billion Trees

Felix Finkbeiner has been working steadily since he was a child planting trees to combat the effects of climate change. He spoke to the United Nations General Assembly when he was just nine years old about the inaction he saw from adults who were supposed to be preserving the planet for future generations.

Realizing that he and his peers would be living through the consequences of their passivity, Finkbeiner started the environmental group Plant-for-the-Planet, which then partnered with the UN’s Billion Tree campaign. Together, they have set a new planting goal of one trillion trees, or about 150 trees for every person on Earth.

Read here.

]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:57:10 GMT Applied Trees Biology https://www.asca-consultants.org/news/news.asp?id=387193 https://www.asca-consultants.org/news/news.asp?id=387193
 

Hirons, A.D., and P.A Thomas. 2018. Applied Trees Biology. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell.
ISBN 978-1-118-29640-0

Chapters include:

  1. Introduction
  2. The Woody Skeleton
  3. Leaves and Crown
  4. Tree Roots
  5. The Next Generation of Trees: From Seeds to Planting
  6. Tree Water Relationships
  7. Tree Carbon Relationships
  8. Tree Nutrition
  9. Interactions With Other Organisms
  10. Environmental Challenges for Trees





]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:58:15 GMT Marty Shaw, RCA #470 Announces Release of New Publication https://www.asca-consultants.org/news/news.asp?id=383025 https://www.asca-consultants.org/news/news.asp?id=383025  

Marty Shaw, RCA #470 has announced the coming publication of his new book The Professional Amenity Plant Appraisal Handbook.


Topics Include:

  • Setting up the appraisal problem
  • Identifying the relevant characteristics
  • Plant physical characteristics
  • Site characteristics
  • Functional benefits of plants
  • Aesthetic landscape use benefit


For more information, visit https://www.proapah.com/.

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