by Mark Roberts | Oct 31, 2017 | Trees
As an arborist, I thought that I had a fairly good understanding of life and death – a dead dog is a dead dog, rabbits exist in two states (alive or dead) and Schrodinger’s Cat is both alive and dead at the same time (until you open the box), but then I met an...
by Mark Roberts | Sep 26, 2017 | Trees
Choosing optimal and suitable trees for the right location, is a concept most arborists and tree mangers refer to as, ‘the right tree in the right place’. When Leon Minckler wrote ‘The right tree in the right place’ in 1941 the concept wasn’t necessarily new....
by Mark Roberts | Aug 13, 2017 | Trees, Uncategorized
I was lucky enough to be at this year’s International Tree Climbing Competition (ITCC) and witness team NZ win again. Even though I have seen it before I’ll never get tired of it – New Zealand winning or the ITCC. I was judging at this year’s competition which was a...
by Mark Roberts | Jul 12, 2017 | Trees
3327 words later it ends like this. It’s not so much that I don’t believe in the urban forest – it exists, it is there, I just think we are looking after it from the wrong angle. If ever there was a ‘look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’...
by Mark Roberts | Jul 4, 2017 | Trees, Uncategorized
Not being afraid to throw the proverbial cat at the pigeons, I have proposed a paper for the 2nd Asia Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting on why urban forests cannot exist… The myth of the urban forest Abstract: Urban forests are not naturally occurring...
by Mark Roberts | May 21, 2017 | Trees
The management of ancient and veteran trees has become very topical and this is not necessarily a bad thing. Managing venerable old trees requires a different mind-set, and I quite like that. Sometimes it’s best to throw the rule book away, do something...
