There is a new book on the marketregarding tree and landscapeappraising entitled A Practical Guide to Tree Appraisal. It is written by Ed and Lee Steigerwaldt.Kudos to them for their effort! It is a pro-fessional publication that is well written in simple language that is eas to follow. They provide numerous photographs to depict their content and they examples of situations and calculations throughout the book.However, the authors present method ologies that seem to compete with and disagree with some of the meihods of plant appraisal currently in use in. These present methodologies are discussed in the 9th edition of The Guide for Plant Appraisal, written byThe Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers and published by The International Society of Arboriculture, and referred to here simply as The Guide. As many know, the 1 Oth edition is being prepared for publication now. The first edition of The Guide waspublished in 1957, and it has been revised every so often, with the 9th edition having been published in 2000. In fact, the plant appraisal processes originated more than 100 years ago.
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