David is a good guy, though you'll find plenty who disagree (funny they're the same ones who have problems with me
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He did try to discuss this very issue with Claus, but there was a major breakdown in communication....if memory serves me Claus had problems both understanding and speaking English on the topic which was somewhat disappointing.
Disagreemant and heated debate is
good for our profession and industry, we all have big areas of common ground form which to start from, its in exploring the areas of difference, born often out of our different working experiences, climate tree species etc... that we can make advances in our own abilties to better mange trees.
Something Shigo said when he was out here in Sydney or Melbourne, referring to the need to keep studying and developing greater understanding of how trees deal with, grow and adapt to the massive range of environmental conditions they encounter in the urban forest....all of us tend to try to find one panecea, one model that fits all lazyness i quess, I don't believe there is one model as such and as an Arborist each problem, conflict I'm asked to deal with requires all of my careful attention...some aspects of the events surrounding the management of the Anne Frank chestnut do not seem to have passed that particular test in my opinion.