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Finding Solace, Resilience and Connection in Nature During the COVID-19 Pandemic Reconnect with nature during COVID-19 As cities continue to grow and multiply we get more disconnected from nature and become less aware of the impact our modern lifestyles have on the environment. Conversely, experiencing nature in our [...]
Spotted Lanternfly is a Border Away Calling All Arborists — Help us keep it out! It’s an Invasive Beauty A beautiful, bright red, showy invasive insect is making headlines in North America. It is known as the spotted lanternfly (SLF; Lycorma delicatula). It swarms by the hundreds to [...]
Make Every Anchor Count As climbing arborists, selecting, installing and monitoring anchor points for life support is a daily and critical task. Using the organic, often changing, sometimes growing structure of trees to provide suitable life support anchorages is a skill to be developed and not taken lightly. [...]
Miscreants or Messengers? If you see a Pileated Woodpecker at work, take it as a sign Heed Their Warning If you get bad news about one of your trees, kindly don’t shoot the messenger. Even if – especially if – they vandalize that very tree. It could [...]
Gear Up Big for the Season Add Arborist Crane Operator Subcontractors to Your Network I gathered content for this networking article at a big Silver Maple removal in Ajax, Ontario with Cody Menken of Diamond Crane Corp, Mark Batty of Brooklin Tree & Crane (formerly Sensible Tree Care) and Eric Batty [...]
Hydration & Nutrition For Industrial Athlete Climbers Industrial athletes aren’t just arborists who choose to compete. “As industrial athletes, we use our bodies as tools and the fuel that we put in our bodies can dictate the performance of the tool,” Brooklin Tree Care owner, arborist, cyclist, runner, [...]