While attending the 4th celebration of tree care below the branches here at The Morton Arboretum, I put together this list of my publications and videos over the years. Feel free to warm up your winter nights by tuning into the bottom half of the tree.
Please offer any comments or constructive criticism that arise, and share if you like. Some of my views have changed over the past 15 years, but most have been consistent on one primary theme: Give Trees a Chance!
ROOT, FLARE AND TRUNK CARE RESOURCES: WINTER VIEWING LIST
TREE INSPECTION and PEST MANAGEMENT
Videos
Treating Armillaria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v40tw13HDGg&t=13s
Killing Trees: Frothy Flux after Grading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqEttwr9NFs
Inspecting Sallie’s Crying Tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx5HqcK4rHU
Managing Tilia after Root Loss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bLMgauvRWE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqO8y8sVOcI
Treating Infections from Drilling for Data and Filling to Conceal Damage (Blowtorch at 5:50): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHB1nI0shtU and https://www.youtube.com/user/HistoricTreeCare https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQElA0Jf6aH-NHgBOxpqZSQ
Tree Inspection, per US and German Standards:
https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Standard-Tree-Inspection-1508.pdf
Frothy Flux Disease: Ooze in the News https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ooze-in-the-News-from-TCI-Magazine-09-04.pdf
Tools and Techniques for Detecting Decay https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Decay-Detection-Devices-0902.pdf
PRUNING GIRDLING ROOTS
In the Beginning; Detective Dendro Gratifies the Grandiflora by Pruning Girdling Roots, https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dendro1Grandiflora.pdf
Practitioner’s View:
https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Root-Pruning-TCI.pdf
And a more Refined View, from Landscape Below Ground III: https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/LBG-III-Managing-Stem-Girdling-Roots1.doc.pdf
VETERAN TREE MANAGEMENT
Standards: Consulting and Practising Levels
https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/VETcert_Standard_Consulting_May2018.pdf
https://historictreecare.com/vetcert_standard_practising_may2018/
Valuing Vets: http://www.historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Valuing-Vets-AA-Aug-Sep-2014.pdf
Drilling for Data = Spreading Infection: Flare and Trunk Care
Reporting on Retaining Veteran Oaks with Ganoderma, and Cracks after Limb Amputation
https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AA-JUN-JUL-2017-pg10-17_V2.pdf
TREE RISK MANAGEMENT (when Assessment is not enough!)
ISA’s Continuing Education: Basic Tree Risk Assessment, in English and Russian
https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ISA-CEU-Risk.pdf
https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Risk-assessment-Russian.pdf
Tomography Guides Pruning Specifications https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Tomography-Retrenchment-and-Hollow-Trees.pdf
https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Global-View-of-Trees-and-Risk-1.pdf
15% LESS CROWN = 50% MORE STABILITY: Scientific Basis for a new formula
WESSOLLY https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Wessolly-How-hollow-may-a-tree-be.pdf
GOODFELLOW Page 56 https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Goodfellow-Branch-Failure.pdf
MUIR Slides 12 et al https://www.trees.org.uk/Trees.org.uk/files/9a/9ab61d8d-843f-4eea-83b9-fe4bdd8d3393.pdf
DETECTIVE DENDRO’S CASES ON:
Hollow Old Trees
Coons and Craters https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Detectable-Decline.pdf
Tomography and Regeneration Pruning 1406 https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/DD-LLL-1406.pdf
Europe’s Fattest Oak, and Noxious Weeds https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DD-Eloquent-Elephant-1610.pdf
Pest Management
Seiridium https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DD_Leylands.pdf
Ganoderma https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Ill-Illionotus.pdf https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Charismatic-Carya.pdf
Hypoxylon/Ustulina/Kretzschmeria https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Terrible-Tar.pdf
https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Bumpy-Blackness.pdf
Subtle as Sunshine https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Tearing-Tilia.pdf
Fill Dirt: Undoing the Damage https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Fearsome-Fossils.pdf
Differentiating and Managing Insect and Disease Damage https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Dendro-0912-Stubborn-Streaks-295kb.pdf
Lightning Damage https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Bolts-from-the-Blue.pdf
Vehicle Damage https://historictreecare.com/detective-dendro-the-case-of-the-suspicious-specks-2/
Canker Rot: Phellinus spiculosis https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Spurious-Spikes.pdf
Chiropteran Associates https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Deathly-Hollows.pdf
Homo Sapiens and Drilling Damage https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Detective-Dendro-The-Case-of-the-Arrested-Araucaria.pdf
Fill Dirt and Bulldozer Blight https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Dendro-1108-Mutilated-187kb.pdf
Kermes scale, Phyllotaxy, and various bumps
Ph Problems, and Adventurous Roots https://historictreecare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DD-1204-Ionized.pdf