Tree Morphogenesis book1 free download for review

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I would like to make the forum aware of a new book all about tree morphology that will be available for you to download free from Monday and for a few days after, from Amazon.

Title "Tree Morphogenesis book 1 Reduction Via Thinning Theory"

It describes some unusual facets of trees and leads to a deeper understanding of just how 500 million years of evolution has designed trees so that they facilitate wind pruning. Once you understand how they are designed to be pruned naturally, you know exactly how to simulate wind pruning. It goes a lot deeper than that though and it is written for the tree owner so plain English throughout (with some necessary jargon breaks)

I hope you enjoy it, in fact if I'm honest I hope that you love it but whatever you think of it I would ask you to consider leaving a review.

You can find out more by visiting www.TreeMorphogenesis.com from where you will find reviews, video's of us performing tree management on some ancient Oaks using Reduction Via Thinning. There are also links to lots of learning resources and of course a link to Amazon where you can even preview the first few chapters.

David Lloyd-Jones

www.TreeMorphogenesis.com
www.TreeAdvice.com
www.Arbornauts.com
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I downloaded the book free off Amazon Prime several days ago. Its an interesting read.

Odd reaction to a free book over @ the removalist site.

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With over 1000 views, it is generating interest, and nothing wrong with a healthy debate, is there?
 
Wont be reading this book, had a look at the morpho website, really don't like the way the author has jumped to the assumption that he is the only person who can read trees or implies he has somekind of instinctual knowledge of how trees interact with their environment and nobody else does. Can't stand that kind of egotistical nonsense.

Also reduction via thinning is not new, people have been carrying out this type of tree pruning under different names/ideas for decades, at least since the 1950s anyway.

Thanks but no thanks.
 
Give the man an opportunity. Don't shut the door for innovative thinking. Nobody holds the absolute truth. Every day we learn something new about trees. Only arrogant people or primma donnas think they know all. Remember that when Shigo came with his thoughts and ideas about trees, biology and physiology there were a lot of sckeptics too
 
Well the uniqueness of the insights may be overstated. So what? The conclusions from formal research are also often overstated, but it can still hold value.

Here's an abstract to a paper submitted last year. Similar, related material, some different terms used for the same phenomena and structures. No one's developed an adequately detailed program for universal applicability yet imo.

Preserving the Grandeur

Preserving older oaks can involve support and lightning systems, soil work, and pest treatments, but pruning is primary. Tree owners and arborists alike often react to tree problems by recommending removal and replacement, preferring “death with dignity” to the uncertain task of restoring tree health, stability, and value. Experts in Germany, Australia, France, the UK and the US are using similar pruning methods and seeing similar tree responses. The art and science of restoration pruning can restore health, safety, and dignity. By following the way trees shed, then respond, arborists can preserve their grandeur, to the benefit of all.

Keywords: Bud protection zone, node, retrenchment, reiteration, rejuvenation, restoration
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Further Reading:

Fay, Neville. P. Environmental Arboriculture, Tree Ecology and Veteran Tree Management. http://www.treeworks.co.uk/downloads/3%20-%20ENVIRONMENTAL%20ARBORICULTURE%20TREE%20ECOLOGY.pdf

Del Tredici, Peter. Aging and Rejuvenation in Trees, Arnoldia 1999-2000 Winter http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1999-59-4-aging-and-rejuvenation-in-trees.pdf
Gilman, Edward F. et al. Assessing Damage and Restoring Trees after a Hurricane, ENH 1036.University of Florida. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep291

Goodfellow, John. Final Report: Development of Risk Assessment Criteria for Branch Failures within the Crowns of Trees. 2009 http://www.ecosync.com/tdworld/Branch%20Failure%20Investigation.pdf

Meilleur, G.P. Detective Dendro and the Devious Dieback, Retrenchment and pruning, Arborist News, June 2012

Meilleur, G.P. Mike O’Ryza and Partial Pollarding for Parrots, Australia/UK Arbor Age, Feb/Mar 2012

Meilleur, G.P. Mike O’Ryza and the Vexing View, Australia/UK Arbor Age, Dec/Jan 2012

Meilleur, G.P. Restoration Pruning, Arborist News, June 2010 http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f1a4dcaa#/f1a4dcaa/1

Meilleur, G.P. The Power of Positive Pole Pruning, Arborist News, June 2008 http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e14cd2f8#/e14cd2f8/1

Meilleur, G.P. Pruning Stem-Girdling Roots, Tree Care Industry, July 2007
Page 8 here: http://www.tcia.org/PDFs/TCI_Mag_July_07.pdf

Meilleur, G.P. Assessing, Repairing and Preventing Lightning Damage, Bark tracing, Tree Care Industry, June 2007. Page 8 here: http://www.tcia.org/PDFs/TCI_Mag_June_07.pdf

Meilleur, G.P. Basic Tree Risk Assessment and CEU test, Arborist News, October 2006 http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/c56ea66e#/c56ea66e/1

Meilleur, G.P. Tree Risk Mitigation, Tree Care Industry, October 2005
Page 56 here: http://www.tcia.org/PDFs/TCI_Mag_Oct_05.pdf

Meilleur, G.P. Selective Heading Cuts after Storm Damage. Arborist News, August 2004 http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9c7f82fc#/9c7f82fc/1

Pfisterer, J. 1999. Geholzschnitt nach den Gesetzen der Natur (Tree pruning according to the laws of nature). Stuttgart, Germany: Verlag Eugen Ulmer.

Read, Helen. Veteran trees: A guide to good management Peterborough : English Nature, 2000.

Shigo, Alex. A New Tree Biology. Shigo & Trees Assoc., 1991.
 
Re: Tree Morphogenesis book1 free download for review

No wonder.....
A typical arrogant....you can ask anybody here!
Learn to be humble....it takes a lot of courage to speak...but it takes more to remain silent.
 
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No wonder.....
A typical arrogant....you can ask anybody here!
Learn to be humble....it takes a lot of courage to speak...but it takes more to remain silent.

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I agree entirely. After working on this for 28 years, I had everything ready but couldn't pull the trigger.

In the end I only finished it because I desperately wanted a family member to read it before they were gone. I didn't quite make it.

Anyway, as a result it is published and my ideas on how to do what I believe is the most sympathetic form of tree care by design, are laid out for you all to consider.

There are a few thousand copies out there now so I'm really hoping to hear from anybody who has read it with their thoughts, questions and perhaps, any ideas that have come to them as a result of considering it.
 
Re: Tree Morphogenesis book1 free download for review

This is just a brief note to wish you all the best in 2014.

For the holidays, my book will be available as a free download from Christmas eve to Boxing Day so please grab a copy with my best wishes.

You can search your local Amazon store for "Tree Morphogenesis" or find it through the Tree Morphogenesis website.

If you find it thought provoking, Great. However, if you find new and unusual insights that you will be able to use every day in your dealings with trees, ... then and only then will I have hit my mark.

Cheers, David Lloyd-Jones
 
Re: Tree Morphogenesis book1 free download for review

I started the book a couple days ago (downloaded free, thank you Treemorph, and sorry) and am really enjoying it. I don't know if it's gonna be as life changing as billed, but I am finding the description of the subject tree's history exciting, real page turner.

The shape of the young tree has always been something I look for in BIG mature trees. For me it is very similar to trying to figure what someone looked as a child. There are moments when I look at people and for a second I think I can see what they looked like as a kid. I feel like that happens with trees every once in a while as well. I personally love anything that gets me actively thinking about how alive trees are, they are not just growing blindly, there is a plan, and the book has done so thus far. If you personify them a bit it just makes ya root for them more.
 
Re: Tree Morphogenesis book1 free download for review

Hi Macswan

I suspected that some others had seen the shadow of the young tree in mature trees as you have.

I hope that I have taken things a few steps beyond that though in that I have described the triggers for the architectural changes that actually leave the shapes for you and I to recognise.

I really like your analogy of seeing the child in the face of the adult.

If my book says anything worth reading to you and other Arborists like you, I will be overjoyed. If inexperienced Arborists read it and get a deep feel for how open your senses need to be to do this job justice, great but if tree owners read it and understand it well enough to specify it (hopefully to people like yourself), then I will have hit every target that I set for this book.

Cheers and please drop me an email when you have finised, or register at my site and I will send updates as they become available.
 
This Friday you have another chance to download Tree Morphogenesis book 1 for free.

This all part of the pre-launch for the large format printed version.

Please download a copy and read with an open mind (just not so open that your brains fall out!)
 
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