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ISA True Professionals of Arboriculture

Arborsmith, Ltd. is proud to announce that Gilbert and Lesley Smith have been awarded the True Professionals of Arboriculture 2019 Award by the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA). Recipients are awarded for excellence in advancing the profession of arboriculture through education, communication, and public outreach.

Many many thanks to all of you who so graciously responded to our news regarding the ISA True Professionals Award. We so appreciated your words of encouragement and congratulations. We are sharing here the 90 second ISA video that was created for us when we received the award in Tennessee in August, so you could all share in this celebratory event with us. You are the ones who helped make this all happen, because we didn't do this alone.
Regards, Lesley and Gil

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Selecting the Right Person to Trim Your Trees

Mother Nature’s Moment - July/August 2017
by: Lesley Bruce Smith, ISA Certified Arborist

A few weeks ago a friend of ours who lives outside our service area asked me about how to choose someone to trim his trees. His inquiry came in like this…

We’d actually like a filtered referral. A couple of years ago a friend at church hired a tree trimer and afterward felt that both he and his tree had been scalped. How do we decide if a big franchise or landscaping company will do any better or worse than a man with a rope and a chain saw? What questions should we ask?
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