"symplastless" wrote in message
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"Don Staples" wrote in message
omsupplyinc...
Being a yard man and cutting limbs is not dissection. But, tell me,
tree expert, how a dissection would make any difference in identifying a
sucking insect, or how to treat it?


Don Staples - Consulting Salvage Hog
http://www.livingston.net/dstaples/Services/salvage.htm


Fisrt you have to understand the organism you are trying to help.
Dissections have given great understanding of trees and their associates
to many people that have dissected them. You however claiming to be a
consulting forester which you refuse to define just what you mean on your
website (http://www.livingston.net/dstaples/forestry/staples.htm ) should
be well aware of the understanding they recieved by dissecting trees. I
know many foresters with a thorough understanding of tree biology. They
are the teachers, they are the researchers. You are a practicing forester
and do not communicate well with others with wisdom to offer. Ref:
http://www.treedictionary.dcom/DICT2...102/index.html
Written by The Father of A NEW TREE BIOLOGY. That and others can be
found on their website a www.shigoadndtrees.com What do you have to
bring to the table, Don Staples?

I repeat the question, dead wood, what would dissection tell you about a
soft tissue insect, and the control of that insect? You are a one trick
pony, dead wood, pimping Shigo's material. Explain, since you think
definitions are so important, how you define yourself as a "tree expert"
without the first hour or formal education in forestry, in being an arborist
(did you ever retake the test you failed?), in biology, or in any formal
science course work. Cutting lawns and trimming trees is not formal
education, work experience perhaps, but apparently insufficient to pass the
arborist test.

These are really simple questions for a "tree expert". You are actually
casting a shadow of doubt on Shigo's work, if you are a product of it.