Sean Freeman

Treevet, your passion for the foundation work laid by Alex Shigo is matched by the same from many here in Oz of that you can be sure..........however having heard and seen(on video) Shigo explain how important it is not to stop questioning everything, making certain (or as ceretain as we can) that we understand what is happening inside the tree why, how when and where. He always seemed only too willing to aknowledge that the work didn't stop with his writings, rather that is where it starts.

I like to believe that he would have no qualms about Arbs trying to make the model fit more accurately what they are actually seeing inside the trees they dissect, by altering the emphasis from decay to disfunction. He would want that change carefully explained justified and demonstrated for sure.

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Sean

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran