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8 City Trees Welcome New SMA Members… Name Company City State Country Amy Kover NEW YORK NY USA Andre Bego Artisan Landscaping & Tree Service LLC BORING OR USA Barbara Blevins City of Demopolis DEMOPOLIS AL USA Brian Widener BROOKLYN NY USA Catriona Walker FALLS CHURCH VA USA Cheuk Yuet Wong TAI PO NT HONG KONG Christopher Leuck HUNTLEY IL USA Chuck McLellan AUSTIN TX USA Clint Courtney Allcare Property Maintenance LITCHFIELD PARK AZ USA David Steele General Landscape RICHMOND BC CANADA Frank Mobley City of Atlanta DOUGLASVILLE GA USA George Jost SAINT LOUIS MO USA Grady McGahan DALLAS TX USA Kathleen Lompa Oregon Department of Forestry PRINEVILLE OR USA Kevin Westphal City of Cedarburg - Parks & Forestry CEDARBURG WI USA Linda Johnson AUSTIN TX USA Matthew Simmons FRISCO TX USA Matthew Asplundh Asplundh Tree Expert Co. WILLOW GROVE PA USA Ryan Smith BELOIT OH USA Thomas Bradley SALEM OR USA Tyler Lee PITTSBURG IL USA Walter Swift HOPEDALE MA USA Wister Dorta SANTA MONICA CA USA Roundtables are an excellent resource for SMA members! A repository of 26 Roundtables from 2005-2015 will soon be available on the SMA website. The Roundtable format was a suggestion from Dr. Nina Bassuk that we took and ran with. Each Roundtable contains advice and anecdotes from on average 8 to 10 professionals. We would like the Roundtables to be more freely available. They hold up! The topics are: Bioswales, Building Bridges Between LAs and MAs, Building Bridges with City Depts, Part I and II, Cemeteries, Climate Change, Consulting, Contract Growing Partnerships, Drought, EAB, Fall Planting, Gas Lines and Trees, Historic Trees, Invasives, Large Tree Relocation, Medians, Memorial Trees, Pruning Cycles, Sewer Lines, Social Networking, Teaching, Tree ÌÞÊ/Àiià ÜÜÜ°ÕÀL>vÀiÃÌÀÞ°V ) HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH LARGE TREE AND PALM RELOCATION SINCE THE MIDS ) WAS ALWAYS AWED BY THE FACT THAT A MATURE TREE COULD BE RELOCATED AND NOT ONLY SURVIVE FOR JUST A FEW YEARS BUT ACTUALLY THRIVE FOR DECADES 4HE OLD TIMERS IN MY FIELD WHO HAD BEEN MOV ING TREES FOR YEARS TAUGHT ME THE BASICS -Y FIRST EXPERIENCE MOVING LARGE TREES ON MY OWN WAS IN WHEN ) PLANNED AND SUPERVISED THE RELOCATION OF VERY LARGE 0HOENIX PALMS 0HOENIX RECLINATA )T WAS A VERY INTERESTING AND STRESSFUL EXPERIENCE 4HE AREA WHERE THEY WERE GOING TO BE PLANTED HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN THE SITE OF A VERY LARGE STAND OF BEACH OAKS #ASUARINA EQUISETIFO LIA THAT ) HAD CUT DOWN TO STUMPS THE PREVIOUS MONTH 7E HAD BEEN SEAMLESSLY MOVING AND REPLANTING THE 0HOENIX PALMS WITH A TON CRANE UNTIL WE TOOK ONE OF THE LARGEST PALMS OFF A FLATBED TRAILER NEXT TO A PREPARED PLANTING HOLE !S THE PALM WAS BEING LIFTED ONE OF THE CRANES OUTRIGGERS BROKE THROUGH THE UNDERLYING SUBSTRATE 4HIS AREA IS MOSTLY SOLID OOLITIC LIMESTONE THAT CAN GO DOWN AT LEAST FEET METERS 5SUALLY THIS ROCK IS VERY HARD AND STABLEBUT THE EXACT SPOT WHERE THE OUTRIGGER SAT APPARENTLY WAS OVER A SMALL CAVITY AND THE COMBINED WEIGHT OF THE CRANE AND PALM CAUSED THE ROCK TO GIVE WAY )T IS FORTUNATE THAT THE PALM HAD ONLY BEEN A FEW FEET OFF THE TRAILER SO THE WEIGHT WAS RELEASED AS THE PALM HIT THE TRAILER WHEN THE SIDE OF THE CRANE DROPPED 7E WERE ABLE TO RELOCATE THE CRANE AND RE RIG AND EVENTUALLY THE PALM WAS PLANTED 4HE TRAILER HAD TWO BROKEN AXLES 4HIS EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME EARLY ON THAT THERE ARE MANY FACTORS TO CONSIDER WHEN RELOCATING TREES !N INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TREE SPECIES ITS ROOT SYSTEM THE SUB STRATE PROPER RIGGING ROOT PRUNING AND ULTIMATELY PROPER MAINTENANCE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN MOVING MATURE TREES 3OME OF THE TROPICAL TREES THAT ) HAVE WORKED WITH ALWAYS ENDED UP MOVING WITH BARE ROOTS 4HE SOIL FALLS OFF BEFORE WE CAN WRAP THE ROOT BALL YET THESE TREES CONSISTENTLY SURVIVE THE RELOCATION 3INCE THE FIRST RELOCATION OF THE 0HOENIX PALMS WHICH ARE GROWING WELL TWO DECADES LATER ) HAVE SUCCESSFULLY MOVED DOZENS OF SPECIES OF TREES AND PALMS ) HAVE LEARNED TO BE PATIENT AND TO THINK THE PROCESS THROUGH ) HAVE ALSO COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT PROPER PRE AND /iÊ->Ì>ÊV>]Ê >vÀ>ÊÌÀiiÊVÀiÜÊÌÀ>ë>ÌÃÊ>Ê >>ÀÞÊ Ã>`Ê`>ÌiÊ«>Ê*iÝÊV>>ÀiÃîÊÊÌiÊ£xäÃÊÕÃ}Ê>Ê ºÞ`ÀVÀ>i°»Ê*ÌÊ ÕÀÌiÃÞÊvÊ ÌÞÊvÊ->Ì>ÊV> 3 0 6 / % 5 " # - & ,ARGE 4REE 2ELOCATION Full Collection of Roundtables Available Soon on the Website! Boards, Tree Lights, Urban Forestry's Location in City Departments, Urban Fruit Trees, Urban Wood, and Zoos.