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Ekka, squirrels are very abundant in many parts of north america and are not protected. We don't have them in Hawaii, though. I'm a softy when it comes to this sort of thing. I postponed some work yesterday because it would have involved dropping branches onto an occupied bird nest. It's...

Yes, the girl is recovering. She is walking around again and back with her family. She's still working on getting her speech back. I doubt she will ever get back to where she was before. The city actually never got sued in this case (yet). The family ended up filing suit against the last...

I have seen enough dissections of Cook/Norfolk pines to know that that tree is indeed a timebomb (sorry Guy). Resistograph would be the first tool to use, and I would bet $100 dollars that the next one would be a chainsaw. You have termites in your area, Ekka? All of the Araucariaceae are...

www.mytreelessons.com has some excellent knots and rigging information, as well as links to other related sites.

I have also heard of old phoenix pams toppling from the base. Other than that, I would agree with Ekka that most palms hang on to the ground pretty well.

Thanks for the info, keep it coming.

Vharrison, you are probably right. I thought it was a Bactris and my boss said it might also be an Acrocomia. Hard to tell from the photos.

Koa Man, the palm over by Keeaumoku and King is a cohune nut palm (Attalea cohune), native to Mexico and Central America. It is one big old palm!

vharrison, yeah that Aiphanes is a nasty one too. I think the seeds are edible on that species.

Koa Man, not ringing a bell. I'll probably drive that way sometime today so I'll take a look and see.

Hard to tell from the picture, but it looks like it's either a latan or a bismarkia. Bermie, Livistona chinensis is weedy one in the forest I work in too. At least it's nice and soft and doesn't have too many thorns. You think phoenix palms are bad (I know they are!)? Try messing with a...

Treeseer, despite our outrageous zone number, magnolia do grow well here, although they do not get as large as they do on the mainland. The largest one I have seen in Hawaii was only about 35 feet tall. And to be technically precise, I think we are in zone 11 over here. Anyways, did a root...

Whoops again. I think I got my photos mixed up. Anyway, you get the picture (pun again!). Here's one for treeseer.

Here's some of the branches that the twig borers got. I'm pretty certain that they are unrelated to the trees problem, though.

Okay, here's a couple of pictures. Here's the thinning top.

Thanks for the advice guys. Sounds like my suspicion that the root cause (pun intended) of the problem lies underground may be reasonable. I will go ahead with the root inspection sometime this week. I still haven't received the April arborist news. Look forward to seeing it. I'll post...

Whoops! I left out an important word there. I better edit that to read "there are NO above ground signs of girdling roots".

I am hoping that I can get some good advice here. In the garden I work at there is a Magnolia grandiflora that appears to be struggling, and I have not been able to figure out what the problem is. The tree is about twenty years old, twenty feet tall, 10" DBH. For the past few months the...

I hear you, Fla16. But get used to the fact that people here will get all up in arms when they see something done horribly wrong. That is because they are also incredibly passionate about trees, and about doing tree work the right way. They may also be confusing your "youthful exuberance"...

I didn't notice the spikes on the trim job either. Ya gotta learn to climb without those spikes, boy!