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    How to control tree root depth

    You need to hire a consulting arborist and ecologist
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    Resistograph Batteries

    https://www.boschtools.com $80 sounds like a good deal, not a heck of a lot of money compared with a $7 000 drill
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    Pussy Willow??

    It is a willow of some type.
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    Japanese Cedar, Baldcypress...noob needs help figuring out tree type

    Tree Climbers are not arborists
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    New to tree health care?

    And another thing, to get organic matter into the soil you can rely on the old fashioned mixing in peat moss, or mulching, but ultimately you need roots living and dying along with all the other soil inhabitants to create a living soil (which is really old fashioned, just not anthropomorphic)...
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    looking for a PDF of Best management practices - Tree pruning

    Buy it!
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    New to tree health care?

    There seems to be little chance of building AM by the conventional, open a bottle and pour methodology. The single best way to get AM is to grow plants that have AM associations. Annuals are a great way under trees. Plant carrots and they should drive down to a depth at which soil density is...
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    New to tree health care?

    Glomalin is the gylcoprotein discovered by Sara Wright that seems to be the prime mover in the gluing of soils particles into aggregates that then are described as structure. Pretty basic stuff from two decades ago. Build Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi and reap the benefits. While compost is...
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    New to tree health care?

    Once you start understanding glomalin then you might start to understand soil and tree decline.
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    With EAB in the mid-Atlantic, when can you climb?

    EAB does not eat wood, it eats cambium, therefore it does not cause strength loss. Decay causes strength loss. Assess the tree as you normally would. Any tree with decay can break or collapse so do your normal checks. EAB is not some new secret killer of trees and destroyer of structure.
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    Is this a dogwood tree?

    Are all apples not considered to be Malus pulia (syn. domestica)? This is pretty basic stuff. Using genus does not identify this tree. There are thousands of varieties of apples so that is the more correct identification. We cannot ID by this picture alone but it is in the tip-bearing apple...
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    Is this a dogwood tree?

    Its a Malus
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    Red stemed shrub id

    Red osier dogwood
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    Micro-drill device

    I am sure we can get it to you in Canada. Send me a private message.
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    Trees from a distance

    No Robinia pseudoacacia
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    Trees from a distance

    Robinia hispida is the rose locust with purple flowers so this is R. pseudoacacia. hispida I have seen 50 foot tall so not a shrub.
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    Trees from a distance

    Note the rose
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    Trees from a distance

    Correct
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    Trees from a distance

    Why not Hispida?
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    Text Book Suggestions

    So then RCX is specifically mentioned in the course outline and aligns with the required learning outcomes, great.

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