With dropping temperatures and shorter days nearly all of our urban trees have dropped their leaves and gone dormant. The dormant season is the best time to prune trees. For

Sustainable Atwood and the Atwood Neighborhood received a grant in 2011 to inventory all of the trees on private property in the neighborhood. The Urban Tree Alliance has had the privilege of

The Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive wood boring beetle, has been in the Madison news a lot recently. While the insect isn’t yet established in Dane County, it is gradually

The Urban Tree Alliance is hosting a couple of community education classes in the coming months. We’re partnering with Community Groundworks to offer classes on Tree Identification and using tree

Having not received significant rainfall in well over a month, plants in Southern Wisconsin are showing signs of stress. Compared to agricultural crops or turf grass, trees have well developed

Last week the New York Times ran a series of three articles on the hazards of trees in the Big Apple. Having worked as an arborist for the New York

As of April 1st the season for pruning oak and elm trees has expired. Both of these genera are susceptible to fungal diseases (oak wilt, and dutch elm disease) that