IndustryVoice: Arbor Upkeep Requires Expert Pruning

摘要

'Time spent in nature directly contributes to mental and physical health and well-being. We need to sustain our cities' vital green spaces by ensuring that sufficient budget and expertise is allocated so that future tragedies can be averted.' This proverb has little relevance with our country's increasingly popular tree-rich public parks, which are visited by tens of millions of people each year. On June 26, with nary a cloud in the sky, a falling tree branch fell near Central Park's sea lion exhibitin New York City and took the life of a six-month-old baby girl. This tragic accident must act as a national wake-up call to our urban park planners to ensure enough arbor-ists are available to monitor and service trees in high-traffic areas. Ensuring that trees are properly maintained requires that enough certified arborists, who have passed an exam given by the International Society of Arboriculture, are in place to remove dead or potentially hazardous limbs.