I've spotted a hack already, didn't take very long.
Funny thing is, when I look up "Certified Landscape Technician Arborist" in Google, it comes up with 6 matches.
SIX....
There are 53 matches on Yahoo, most of them pointing to sites that Mvaden is affiliated with. It sounds like a made-up title for a glorified greenskeeper who takes a pair of pruning clippers to the occasional fruit tree.
These were the resulting areas found in the search, under that heading (of what little I could find):
Landscaping
Turf management
Perennials
Poa control
Sports turf
Hardy roses
Small Tree care
Small Tree diseases
Pruning
Mmmmm... the truth comes out. It's a very small program for people who clip grass so that it looks nice when other's putt their balls across it. And for people who work with flowers, bushes, hedges, grasses, and small decorative trees.
I suppose expecting someone like that to know about proper LARGE tree practices and procedures would be a bit far-fetched, even if they do somehow have "arborist" in their "title".
My appologies to the groundskeeper.
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Honestly, I don't really even like "crown reduction". Too bad it has to have it's place.
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Yes, I think true crown reduction is one of the most difficult aspects of pruning to properly pull off. It is difficult to do well, and therefore takes skill, knowledge, and training. Probably best left to those whose title is much more simply, "Arborist".