What Is Soil Fertility and Why Is It Important?
What Is Soil Fertility, and Why Does It Matter? When caring for trees, we often focus our efforts on what we can see: the canopy. Pruning is an important tool to manage trees, but ignoring what’s happening below ground is leaving out half the picture. Tree roots are...
The Pruning and Care Young Mature Trees
The Art of Pruning Young and Mature Trees Ever since the agricultural revolution, humans have been pruning trees. While the tools and techniques have changed, the underlying purpose has remained the same: we’ve needed to tame nature. Pruning was originally used to...
Why Trees Don’t Freeze in Winter
Why Don’t Trees Freeze? Outdoor winter temperatures in the Portland area regularly fall below the fresh water freezing temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Although we can generate our own heat by burning calories, without the protection of warm clothes or shelter,...
Cool Facts You Didn’t Know About Forest
Most people know that forests are important for the environment, but there are many other facts about forests that are less well-known. For example, did you know that forests cover 30% of the world’s land surface? Or that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth?...
