Features
7
Writing for a Newspaper
by Jeff Shimonski
You Can Protect Your Trees from
the Effects of Lightning Strikes
7
A Tasty and Zesty Foe
12 The Pittsburgh Urban Forest
Master Plan: Three Collaborator
Perspectives
22 MFI 2013: "One Week Adrenaline
Shot" for Urban Forestry
by Owen Croy
26
Roundtable:
Urban Foresters, Teaching
38 Tree of Merit: Black Cottonwood
12
(Populus balsamifera subsp.trichocarpa)
by Samson Bjarnar Hardarson
Departments
4
Officers' Messages
Nick Kuhn, Jerri LaHaie
5
SMA Membership Information
6
Contributors in This Issue
10 Time for SMA Awards
Nominations
20 Call for SMA Board Candidates
Cover: A giant casuarina tree (Casuarina equisetifolia) at Kailua Beach on the Hawaiian island of
Oahu. Photo by Walt Warriner
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May/June 2013
Volume 49, No. 3
