Ekka,
I was just ready to bring up the subordination idea, rather than the stub to help make the point of union of the two stem clearer. It is a slow process in human time, in tree time, it is just a moment. The hard part of this business is to think like a tree. We may need to change our pace to that of the tree's. I realize that this is a hard concept to sell to clients in the high pressure business world. We may need to convince them that it is a cheap natural form of yoga, go with the flow of nature, be at one with nature. These concepts may work best with slower growing, strong compartmentalizers, which typically have long life spans, as opposed to weak compartmentalizers, that grow fast and die young.
I use Arboriculture by Harris, et.al. for my classes. The first chapter deals with the basic principles of arboriculture. The first two principles I think are the most important: "As tree development changes with time, so must tree care." "Tree care is a long term, low intensity process."
Often in our discussions, we are trying to group young trees with old trees, forest grown trees with boulevard trees. It is hard in our daily businesses to separate them as there may be several ages in the same lawn. Why are we treating one different than the other??
How many of you find that you are often treating the customer, rather than the tree?? If they only understood the complex systems that are in place, which have allowed trees to live for thousands of years with no intervention from man, WHOOPS, we may all be out of work. Perhaps we all need to be educators first and tree loppers second. This is where professionalism, the respect that goes with it, and a whole other discussion begins.
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Bob Underwood, Associate Professor of Forestry
ND School of Forestry
Minot State University - Bottineau Campus
Bottineau, North Dakota |