April 20, 2016

A personal reflection on how Urban Forestry has grown over the last 20 years When I first began studying arboriculture at Virginia Tech, in many ways the Urban Forestry industry was still in its infancy.  For example, I took the first Urban Forestry course the School of Forestry had to offer in 1992.   It was …

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The incredible shedding live oak Trees are constant shedding organisms.  As they grow and put on new “cones of wood” throughout their structure, the branches, trunks and roots are expanded, new twigs and leaves are created, and old branches, bark, twigs and leaves are shed from the plant.  Additionally, weakly attached limbs break off due …

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