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Center for Urban
Forest Research
Mission: Our research
demonstrates new ways that trees add
value to communities, converting results
into financial terms to stimulate more
investment in trees.
Center News Briefs
Newsletters
Research Summaries
PowerPoint Presentations
Urban Forest Research
Marketing Urban Forestry (Flash
Presentation within PowerPoint) - Does
your city council support trees? Find
out if you have any of these barriers
and obstacles to getting their support.
And learn how to really get your message
across to local elected officials and
other key decision makers.
STRATUM - an easy to use, computer-based
program that helps communities assess the
benefits of their street trees. -
Learn more Our VISION
is sustainable communities that are better
off today than yesterday. We hope to see
communities have an increased understanding
and appreciation of the urban forest and
choose to make an investment in the care and
maintenance of community trees to ensure
continued health of the urban forest.
Our Center is one of
13 research work units affiliated with
the Pacific Southwest Research Station,
a USDA Forest Service Organization. Our
offices are located on the campus of the
University of California at Davis and
housed with the Department of
Environmental Horticulture.
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International Tree Failure Database (ITFD)
"The ITFD application has an internet based form for collecting
important information about trees that have
failed structurally. Perhaps the most
significant component of the ITFD is the
output reports. When the database has
received a number of data entry forms for a
geographic area, reports will be generated.
Over time this data will reveal the
characteristics of trees that fail and
improve our ability to predict future
failures. The ITFD was designed and
developed with our initial emphasis on North
America. Although it can be used for data
collection and reporting of fallen trees
outside of North America, the species list
and a few other fields may require minor
modification. If you are interested in using
this application outside of North America,
we encourage you to email or call for
further information." [From ITFD website]
International Tree Failure
Database (ITFD)
Sub-Topics: Risk Assessment and Hazard,
Structure (tree)
State(s)/Region(s): International
Keywords: Hazard, ITFD, Structure, Tree
failure
Technical Level: Field (urban) foresters,
Applied research material
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Profile of Alex Shigo
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Alex Shigo (far
right) explaining markings on an Oak section during
one of his last symposiums. |
Tree care pioneer Alex Shigo died on Oct. 6 at his home in
Barrington, New Hampshire. He was 76.
Often referred to as the “father of modern arboriculture,”
Dr. Shigo spent most of his adult life studying, lecturing,
dissecting and writing about trees. “A tree is much more than a chunk of dead wood,” exclaims
Shigo. “Trees are alive; they live all year ‘round, not just
for a short time in the summer. They work during the winter,
too. Many people spend time on what goes wrong with a tree;
I wanted to study what goes right.”
A memorial service was held on Oct. 11 in Barrington, where
many arborists spoke movingly about his influence on their
lives and the field of arboriculture.
Shigo was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania on May 8, 1930. He
attended Waynesburg College in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
After serving in the Korean War in the Air Force, Shigo
returned to his studies at West Virginia University, where
he received his Master’s and PhD.
He spent most of his professional career with the U.S.
Forest Service. “Until the 1950s there were only big two-man
chain saws; then a manageable, one-man chain saw was
developed. One of my assignments was to learn more about
tree decay. So I went out and started to dissect trees,”
Shigo notes.
He came up with the idea to dissect trees longitudinally and
as a result, he learned that many commonly held concepts
about heart rot and decomposition and other theories were
wrong.
After retiring from the Forest Service in 1998, Dr. Shigo
began another career speaking and writing about trees. He
authored over 270 publications and continued to write, study
and research literally until the day that he died.
Shigo and his wife Marilyn have a daughter, Judy, and a son,
Robert, as well as five grandchildren.
Dr. Shigo’s enthusiasm for trees and his trademark phrase,
“touch trees,” with which he autographed his books, will
live on through the philosophical style of his writing.
Sources: Wikipedia and
www.igin.com
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About
Volunteers
A quote from Pepper Provenzano, Director,
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Working for a nonprofit
volunteer-based organization will never make you
wealthy, but one cannot walk away from working
with volunteers without becoming enriched in a way
that money cannot buy. Work with them long enough
and you learn that volunteers are mostly people
inspired by a pure motive . . . to give . . . and
asking nothing in return. They are the backbone of
nonprofit organizations, and those nonprofits
match your donated buck and make it worth what a
buck used to be worth, with an endless wellspring
of volunteer muscle and know-how and passion,
driven by no other choice but the simple good of
it.
Some say you have to give to get
in this world. I think there's more to it.
Volunteers are like an unseen force in the
evolutionary process of spiritual enrichment, but
they also drive our roots into the earth and our
limbs heavenward. That's more than a platitude,
and not just a metaphor.
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Pepper Provenzano in an e-mail to the urbnrnet maillist
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Shigo's 100 Tree Myths
complete
on-line text of the book
100 Tree Myths
by Dr. Alex Shigo
See the web site sponsored by
John
A. Keslick, Jr., for more hard-to-get books
on-line, other Shigo material and other
great insight into tree biology and
pesticide science.
Check out the
Tree Dictionary also. It is an
excellent piece of work.
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In The
News
 Need Forestry Information? Find
it at Forestry
Index.net.
Can't find the right word? Find it at Glossaries of Forestry Terms.
Problems with your PC or software?
Try the Forestry
Computing Helpdesk.
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The Treeture
characters are guides that help
children learn all about the way a
tree functions and how important
trees, plant life, birds, animals,
and insects are to keeping our earth
healthy. They are teaching tools
that use fantasy to explain
scientific facts.
Treetures compose a community of
characters that are dedicated to
tree planting, tree care and
teaching the value of trees to our
children. The goal of the concept is
to combine ecological education with
entertainment. Being a Treeture
Teacher means understanding the need
for trees, how they function, and
teaching that message to others.
Visit there web site with your hild
and have a great, fun and education
time: TREETURES WEB SITE. |
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Treetures Blossom
and Humus with creator Judy Blau |
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 Treelink Kid's Corner (cool
games!)Real Trees for Kids (tree
farming for kids)
Trees and the
Environment - Kids Make the
Difference (American Arbor
Day Foundation)
The Tree
Musketeers (Empower Kids,
Plant Trees)
Trees for Kids
Links (Pages of Tree Links that
are Kid Safe)
Texas
Forest Service Student page (Fun
and Learning) |
...more coming
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