Tree care is a male-dominated industry, but as these female company owners can attest, talented people can be successful regardless of – and some-times aided by – their gender.
Insect pests and diseases are com-mon problems on trees in the land-scape. Thankfully, not all of them are life-threatening to trees. This article focuses on a group of insects called scales.
People, in general, don’t often notice trees. It’s lamentable, but true. Non-arborists not only fail to observe trees, but many also forget to look up. An inward and downward preoccupation tends to hold a person’s attention most of the time. Even those of us whose lives revolve around trees should not consider ourselves to be ex-empt from this descendent gaze.
There is, if you pardon the play on words, a fi restorm of business in right-of-way (ROW) work. That is to say, there is a lot of work to be had in storm-related ROW prep and cleanup as well as an emerging demand for creating fi rebreaks, largely in the more arid western United States.
Maybe your company has been in business for a decade or you’re just starting out, but you have ound that employing cranes to do tree work has really become your niche. Maybe you are using a rented crane and operator from a local company, or you are taking the leap to purchase a new or used machine. Congratulations on arriving at this point.