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The International Society of Arboriculture The urban forest is increasingly being recognized for its benefits to public health and wellbeing. As a result, more cities in North America are including green spaces in their community health policies and promoting trees in their climate-change agendas. Among the ways trees improve public health: 100 trees remove 53 tons of Read more

by Trina Kleist, The Union Newspaper Arborist Aero Acton sees dragons in his Banner Mountain front yard – two now. The latest one emerged at the end of October from the stump left when a tree fell during a storm last winter. Labor took six and a half hours at the hands – and chainsaw Read more

The Union Newspaper Have you seen the split oak tree on Highway 49 near Pekolee Drive? This tree has prompted a lot of questions since it came apart in a storm this winter. Many oak trees are stump sprouts, growing off an old stump and root system of an oak tree that fell over, was Read more

The Union Newspaper On Saturday, Jan. 24, I had the wonderful experience of learning how to prune my landscape trees. Not only did Prospector’s Nursery provide a comfortable learning environment, including some edible goodies, but the “class” was free, as Aero Acton of Leaf It To Me first taught us and then showed us on Read more

The Union Newspaper It’s fall and the trees are putting a winter blanket over their roots. In the forest the soil is covered with leaves and other decaying organic matter. This organic mulch slowly decomposes improving soil fertility, aeration, structure, and drainage. Mulch is part of a tree’s natural environment and provides the perfect conditions Read more

by Edy Cassell, The Union Home Improvement Guide The sound of chainsaws and the smell of two-stroke engines fill the air, but what is most striking about visiting the Leaf it to Me crew is the vision of men in trees, moving around with an ease that defies the terrestrial reality that grounds most of us mere mortals. Originally established in 1998 by Read more

The most misunderstood and overlooked part of a tree is the root system that hides beneath the ground. Most people think trees have giant tap roots that grow deep into the ground to hold the tree up. They think they “saved” a tree just because they didn’t cut it down. They call leaves “green waste” Read more

by Carol Guild, The Union Newspaper The winter months are not the usual time when we think about tree care – unless (knock on wood) Old Man Winter blows one over. But this is the best time to care for your conifers to help ensure strong, healthy trees year-round. “All the pests that attack them Read more

By Trina Kleist, The Union Newspaper Custodian Don Fowler built the garden at Gold Run Elementary School, in Nevada City, in 1991 and ” no matter how hard parent volunteers worked at it ” the weeds and trees finally were about to take over. So parents Aero and Kara Acton, owners of the Leaf it Read more