The Tree Guy

04/21/2022

Red Oak , Napanoch NY.

04/14/2022

When the winter snow melts in Michigan, a variety of wildflowers begin to emerge, some of which grow nowhere else on earth. Explore this guide for the best places to view our state’s diverse plant life and learn about the role each plays in their respective habitats.

04/14/2022

Most of these historic fruits were once plentiful on the city’s grassy knolls and hills. But they’ve since been mostly lost to climate change and mass agriculture.

04/08/2022

11/28/2021

As the holiday season approaches and many across the US are setting up their Douglas firs, white pines or spruce trees in the house, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has sent out an alarming warning.

11/28/2021

"Life, faculties, production – in other words, individuality, liberty, property – this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political
leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men
have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

“Every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a
state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not
wanting people to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

"No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law."

- Frederic Bastiat, 1850

11/28/2021

The Nature Conservancy talks with a citizen scientist-turned-field-researcher about a discovery that attracted international attention to Tennessee fireflies.

11/28/2021

Editor’s note: This story and photos are published with permission of Purdue University and courtesy of the Kendallville Tree Commission.

11/28/2021

Nova Scotia may not have much old growth forest left but it can lay claim to having the oldest tree on record in the Maritimes.

11/28/2021

"It would be unwise to assume that an untrained worker can safely operate a stump grinder by intuition, or common sense."

Check out the article in the November TCI Magazine, Equipment Corner: Operating the Stump Grinder - an excerpt from TCIA's Best Practices for Stump Grinder Operations in Arboriculture" - Chapter Six

Read more at tcimag.tcia.org or thru the link in our bio.

11/28/2021

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