Dr. Alex Shigo died on Oct. 6 at his New Hampshire home. Known as the "father of modern arboriculture," Shigo is famously said to have dissected a woodlot with a chainsaw and tweezers, and he ...

DURHAM— This spring, as many throughout the region are pruning their trees after winter storms, few will realize that a now deceased local man was one of the driving forces behind the techniques that ...

It has been almost five years since I met Alex Shigo during a tree conference at Cypress Gardens, but I still remember his put-down of the clods who hat-rack and mutilate trees and call it pruning.

Our knowledge of trees is very limited, according to Alex Shigo, plant pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. “We have been in a small room and are just now breaking down ...

Q. To save money I hired my neighbor – who claimed to have pruned many trees – to cut off some limbs of a larger maple tree on my property. After he finished, a friend of mine stopped by and told me ...

Trees co-evolved with a rich ecological support system over many eons. As people have migrated into our increasingly densely populated and denatured cities, we have attempted to bring some of the ...