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Home Tree Value Fallacies and Truths
Contributing Writer: Chris Olson BCMA/TRAQ All photos courtesy of Chris Olson. Fact or fiction: Do trees make home values fall? It’s no secret that trees have benefits. Front-line warriors in climate change, they accomplish more than we oft-times remember: oxygen creation, cleaning of air [...]
Trees, Please!
Elm and Sycamore, Clinch River Valley, Virginia/Photo Nancy Wolf “…whatever comes One hour was sunlit and the most high gods May not make boast of any better thing Than to have watched that hour as it passed.” -Ezra Pound
Sylvan Bookshelf
Is there a fantastic book about trees that you love, that furnishes terrific information, that you’re always pressing upon friends and colleagues? Consider recommending that great book with Taking Root’s new occasional feature, Sylvan Bookshelf! Here’s all you need to do. Select the book. Briefly answer three questions: What [...]
The Fall 2023 New York State Arborists Conference & Expo
Syracuse was the hub for important education, thoughtful discussion and good networking at NYSA’s Fall Conference. Outside the DoubleTree Hilton, late summer hydrangeas ran riot. Inside, the meeting got underway. New York State Urban Forestry Council offered cookies and information on grants as well as [...]
Arborists Weigh In on New IRA Funds
Taking Root conducted an informal survey at the New York State Arborists Conference in Syracuse September 17-18. We said: Under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Federal government has just allocated over one billion dollars for 400 projects involving trees and green spaces in all 50 states, territories, [...]
Zen and the Art of Aesthetic Pruning
Guest contributor: Alexander Senauke, Blog at www.setting-roots.com All photographs courtesy of Alexander Senauke. Like many people I’ve met who work in arboriculture, my path into the industry was fairly circuitous. More unusual is the fact that my interest in trees was stirred in a time [...]
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