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    Montana Vaycay--Hot Springs, Ski, and Trees!

    Prices have been going up all over; inflation and all that. I just paid $1200 for a 3-day conference. It was worth it, for the networking as much as the edjamakation. Sorry if you guys can't make it. We have shared so much online, it would be good to meet! I don't know much about the org. I...
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    Interesting statement in TCIA magazine article

    Lichens can proliferate when crowns thin out in NC. People can conflate that correlation into causation.
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    Montana Vaycay--Hot Springs, Ski, and Trees!

    https://amtopp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Conference-Schedule-Worksheet-for-web.pdf Get away to Hot Springs, <1/2 hour from Discovery Ski. Fingers crossed for 2 days on the slopes and 1 day of rest, learning about landscape and tree care. The pruning debate will be unique!
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    Removing girdling roots?

    Oh and Waldo there is no I S a BMP on route management they were too busy putting the track program together so that unfortunately went on the back burner But I agree leaving the area open is vastly preferable and if grade must be restored it should be with the most porous material possible and...
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    Removing girdling roots?

    Good posts by Don and Ryan Redtree I wonder though about backfilling done what did you use the same soil? In Europe there's been experimentation with backfilling with perlite and with expanded aggregate aka Stalingrad get both of which would allow air ration around the pruning loans while...
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    Removal technique suggestions?

    Bartlett did a study on this and it's written up in the ISA journal highly recommended it shows that through cabling using terminal fasteners is very effective Here's a picture of the locus that I cabled five years ago with this method minimal wounding absolutely no widening of the hole...
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    Ivy on trees

    One tip is to just "pruning it at the main scaffold forks and leaving it alone on the trunk some people like it why not keep it there
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