The Stump: February 2005

Book Review

Pruning Trees Near Electric Utility Lines: A Field Pocket Guide for Qualified Line-Clearance Tree Workers by Alex Shigo is a good field reference. This small, information filled book covers proper pruning, how to deal with previously topped trees, and his concept of 90 percent of the time, removing 3 branches will give 90 percent of the clearance. The National Arbor Day Foundation has established this book as the base pruning guideline for Tree Line USA companies. To get your copy of this book contact Shigo and Trees, Associates, 4 Denbow Road, Durham, NH 03824-3105. Include a check for $3 per book.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost

February 2 - 4
Midwestern Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture Annual Conference, Bettendorf, IA Contact: Jim Rocca (jr4stree@juno.com), 636-386-8733

February 5
Tree Pruning Demonstration, 1101 York St., Carl Junction, MO Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

February 8
Climbing High: Arborist Safety Training, Walter Woods Conservation Area, Joplin Registration Required Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

February 28
ISA Certified Arborist Exam, Forest Park - Jewel Box, 5600 Clayton Ave, St. Louis, MO Contact: Jamie Frank (jamiec76@hotmail.com), 314-289-5316

March 3 - 4
MCFC Conference, Tan-Tar-A Resort, Osage Beach, MO Registration Required Contact: MCFC at (www.mocommunitytrees.com), 636-386-8733

March 14
Tree Selection and Planting Workshop, New-Mac Bldg., Anderson, MO, 6:30 PM Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

March 17
Tree Selection and Planting Workshop, MDC Office, El Dorado Springs, MO, 6:30 PM Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

March 24
Stem Girdling Root Workshop, Southwest Missouri State University, Lot 18, Springfield, MO Registration Required Contact: Cindy Garner (Cindy.Garner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-895-6881 Ext. 1037

March 31
Tree Selection and Planting Workshop, City Hall Council Chambers, Mount Vernon, MO, 6:30 PM Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

April 1
Missouri Arbor Day

April 11
Tree Selection and Planting Workshop, City Hall Council Chambers, Cassville, MO, 6:30 PM Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

April 13
Tree Resource Improvement and Maintenance (TRIM) Grant Workshop, Walter Woods Conservation Area, Joplin, MO, 9:30 AM Registration Required Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

April 14
Tree Selection and Planting Workshop, Walter Woods Conservation Area, Joplin, MO, 6:30 PM Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

April 18
Tree Selection and Planting Workshop, Community Bldg., City Park, Greenfield, MO, 6:30 PM Contact: Jon Skinner (Jon.Skinner@mdc.mo.gov), 417-629-3423

April 29
National Arbor Day

Pruning Trees Near Electric Utility Lines Book

People who will not sustain trees will soon live in a world which cannot sustain people.

- Bryce Nelson

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