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Tree Biomechanics Week 2022
If you’ve never heard of Tree Biomechanics Week, it’s time you did.
Tree biomechanics incorporates biological study and engineering principles to understand how plant growth leads to the ability to w...
Perhaps this tree should be called “The Table Oak”, as it stands on four “legs” – each a buttress root – with no central wood at all. It won’t stand forever, of course, but it’s been like this for at ...
Recently I was called upon to inspect an apparently healthy American beech (Fagus grandifolia) tree. Outside of a few tightly bifurcated branch unions, the only real issue with this tree with a 43-inc...
Understanding Lightning & Associated Tree Damage
Lightning is one of nature’s most powerful forces. Lightning can have devastating effects on people, property and trees. Each strike of lightning can reach more than five miles in length, and produce ...
Previously, my casebook has recorded the construction of paths causing root damage and basal decay in trees. Due to the recent winter storms, these lessons in ‘path-ology’ have now extended to documen...
