Features
8
Creative Collaboration, Oakville
Canopy Club and Boston Pizza
10 Urban Forestry on the Frontier
Thunder Bay Update
by Rick Harper
10
22 State Coordinators' Update
Welcome to Missouri Community
Forestry!
by Nick Kuhn
26 SMA 49th International Conference
and Trade Show – Trends & Tools
32 NUCFAC: A Report from the
National Scene
by Walt Warriner
34 Starting at the Bottom: What Root
Buttresses Can Tell Us about Trees
and Landscapes
22
by Clive Mayhew
38 Tree of Merit: Skymaster English
Oak (Quercus robur)
Departments
by Nina Bassuk
4
Officers' Messages
Nick Kuhn, Jerri LaHaie
6
Contributors in This Issue
7
SMA Membership Information
20 SMA Arborist Exchange Program
Cover: Thunder Bay, Ontario looks out over a formation of mesas and sills thought to resemble a
Sleeping Giant. Photo Courtesy of EcoSuperior
(www.ecosuperior.org)
34
Sept./Oct. 2013
Volume 49, No. 5