Therrin

I'm not so sure that we should have advertising links to businesses on the Wiki page. Afterall, people want to know what one *IS*. It's hardly fair for all the world to look something up and be directed to only one or two people's sites.

Think of it, you don't open Encyclopedia Britannica and look under "firearms" and find a URL for a single local gunsmith.

I think the site should be purely informational. The rest of the internet, and your personal webpages, forums, chat rooms etc are advertising venues. Why let one or two people have all the attention? Photo credit is one thing, but unless you're going to set up an Advertising section, with anyone who wants to put their site in there, personal sites should be removed (unless maybe of course a REAL Arborist cert can be shown)

If I'm not mistaken, over in Australia you guys have to go to school for YEARS! You know ALL about the trees that you're going to be working with before you start working on them, and it takes at least a Level 3 cert before you can even be *called* an Arborist. Nothing of this is mentioned.

On doing some research, it shows that a true Arborist should be familiar with:

Fell Small trees
Operate and maintain chainsaws
Operate machinery and equipment
Provide information on plants and their culture
Co-ordinate worksite activities
Carry out workplace OHS procedures
Maintain and monitor environmental work practices
Undertake standard climbing technique
Fell large trees
Implement a tree maintenance program
Implement a tree pruning program
Remove trees in confined spaces
Perform specialist ammenity pruning
Undertake complex tree climbing
Implement a tree protection program
Sample soils and analysis results
Undertake aerial rescue
Plan and develop a business website
Develop and manage a chemical use strategy
Provide specialist advice to clients
Prepare estimates, quotes and tenders
Prepare reports
Develope a strategy for the management of large pests
Manage plant health
Monitor and manage soils