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Resource Articles from Gilbert Smith, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist
and Lesley Bruce Smith, ISA Certified Arborist
A Story FROM a Tree Stump
Backyard Wisdom - March/April 2022
by: Gilbert A Smith, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist
I’m sorry to say it, but we had to take this tree down for safety reasons. But, it has a story to tell us, from the inside out!
This Norway Maple landed as a “whirly bird” seed on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan in Lake Forest in 1960. I counted the annual rings as best I could. I guess everyone knows how to count the tree rings to determine the age of a tree. In April 2019 in our Wisdom From The Trees article Lesley and I talked about how trees grow and how they heal. Also Aldo Leopold, in his famous book, The Sand County Almanac explained the history in the rings of a tree.