"Jangchub" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:51:24 -0500, "D. Staples"
wrote:


Yes, you are sorry, you have, by count on your web page, 58 days of short
courses for your "tree biology" title. All as a saw hand for Shigo. You
are not a biologist, arborist, forester, or tree expert. You are a fraud.
Don't quit your day job.

You make a lot about what I "claim", you alone claim your self professed
title, yet have not posted where or what I have claimed, or have ever
claimed.

Yeah, things are different in Texas, we expose frauds. Our arborists are
certified, our foresters are reviewed and acknowledge by the state, or
biologists have degrees.

I will ask you once again, post your education, other wise, be a confirmed
yard boy.

Shit, I'd take a simple acknowledgment that he is wrong about pruning
paint and the reasons TX uses it on ONE ****ING type of tree. Yow
that guy is a shmuck. What did you call him one day...it had me
hysterical...I think it was ninkompoop? Something like that.

Do you or have you heard of Don Gardener? He's such a bright guy. I
don't think he charges, either. He's more interested in where and how
oak wilt spreads and trenching methods as it also spreads by the
fungal mat/root relationship.

I have heard of Gardener, think I have met him at one of the pest control
seminars the state used to have, don't think they bother any more. We are
seeing a lot of what folks around here are calling oak wilt, and on
investigation find it is residual damage from Rita. After a beating like our
trees got with Rita, we will begin showing a lot of die off with in a few
years, and usually ending after 5 years or so. That 120 mile an hour steady
wind broke roots and weakened the whole system, and not rot is taking it's
toll.