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One more from the past couple weeks. Last hour of daylight.

Amazing forest. Just when I wonder if variety will every taper off, lighting, seasons and weather prove the forest always has a different look.

Definitely true about the affordability.

An arborist and family who crossed the country to see the coast redwoods .

Winter in the Coast Redwoods. There was a small snow flurry last week. Flakes melted on the ground.

One of my favorite guys in the redwoods photos from last year. Rainy day - but awesome time.

"Sticks" is as great figure of speech !! In the mountain area, one of the walk through Sequoiadendron fell this year. I added a photo of it to the very end of my coast redwood drive through tree page. Drive Through Redwoods. Drive Thru Redwood. Avenue of the Giants and Klamath. Leggett. The update is at the top of the page and the photos at the end. The pioneer cabin tree was up in Calaveras grove near Arnold, California.

No comparison. It's a day and night difference. The ones I posted for example - only a handful of people know about one and don't return after the time it was measured. And the other one I found on my own in January.

No, the two above are in other locations, found the past few years.

Leatherleaf fern, Polypodium, usually grows on the redwoods. Much different looking than sword ferns which usually grow on the ground.

It seems inconsequential.

But if pollarding lives up to what the name means, that the limbs are cut off every year, how can there be "massive" limb failure if no massive limbs are allowed to grow from the cuts?

Eureka California has a huge long row of Eucalyptus that apparently lost top growth to cold weather some decades ago, and they were all topped. All seem to have recovered. I wouldn't call topping good. But it looks like the species can handle some damage and recover.

January 2015 to January 2017, I think this is my favorite redwood, named "Darth Vader" for reference. Redwood National and State Parks.

A couple of weeks ago I learned all the measurements for the coast redwood below, first shared in 2014. In the USA, champion trees get a point for each inch of circumference, foot of height and 1/4 crown spread. This added 1357 points, exceeding the 1321 points of the General Sherman giant sequoia. With that, and 2017 upon us, I'm starting this fresh coast redwood forest thread for photos. The previous thread was Old Redwood Thread. For more info about the redwood below, it's page is: 1357 Point Coast Redwood Discovery

Good chance your OP was constrained to mostly climbing, but in the broader sense of "competent" most replies so far trace back to what I shared previously. There's lots of talk about climbing, but good climbing does equate to being a competent arborist. It would be more enlightening if replies shared their path to horticultural awareness and how much time they chose to invest in that aspect. What did they feel took more time, getting competent at climbing, ore competent as a knowledgeable arborist? Did it seem equal? Did one seem tougher or easier to learn? ...

Competent at climbing and removing trees? Or competent at pruning and arboriculture? If you mean competent pruning and arboriculture, I think it will take 5 to 7 years to become competent working alone. If somebody else is giving you some guidance and instruction, maybe as little as two years. I have worked with pruning, landscape design and landscape installation. A big problem I see among people who only do one facet, is not realizing all three should rely on the same knowledge. If they don't realize it, it's because they are inexperienced or ignorant. Tree workers will remove and manage canopy that's integrated with a landscape design in many cases. And the designer won't be there. That means tree workers need to know many perennials and shrubs as well as trees due to shade and moisture requirements. Landscape architects frequently don't realize maintenance cost differences between tree species the way a "competent" arborist does. So if somebody wants a low landscape maintenance with moderate growth, the landscape architect should have the same knowledge set as the arborist, and can benefit from some experience in the related field.

For anyone going to the coast redwoods in a couple of months, this carnivorous Cobra Lily on the edge of the redwood forests will be blooming and pushing new growth. Darlingtonia genus.

I never owned one of those. What do you like most about it, and why was it phased-out? Doing a quick search, it looked like a used one was for sale on Ebay for almost a $1000

Most people I know google the question, not the answer, The answer is what they hope to find. I think "googling" refers to the search. Could be wrong, but try googling that to see.

It's fun looking for new places down there to take photos. There are lots of spots with Ent-like forms too, at least with some imagination.

One of the big ones along Simpson Reed trail

What you said is very true. It irritated me particularly, because where I grew up on the west side of Portland, even though there were few blacks, asians, etc., when I went to school, and afterward, racism didn't really exist here. And we did have some of most races and religions. We all got along fine. I don't remember anybody trying to cause problems over that. And like you said, if all the soundbites of Michelle (or Barack) can be played back, in context, it's disgusting how often they played to race and dabbled in racially fueled matters. If they are not prejudiced like it looks, then they would have to have used it as a tool for leverage because what happened is on the record.

Even not knowing you or the wake you've left behind in commerce, I'll risk going out on a limb to wager that Trump may have built a 1000 times more than you have, or most of us, and established thousands more jobs and professional positions. Looking at that, I would say his talk has far more value than your quote. If I had to place bets on what's got value and what's cheap, I'd be placing my bet that your talk is the cheap talk. The betting aspect is interesting. Because when the (apparently fake) polls suggested Trump was going to lose the election bad, apparently the established betting community the day of the election was putting greater odds on Trump. And they were right.

I can't see for certain that you figured out what I said yet. But I can offer that I don't always explain things with the train of thought some might expect. For example, The Dark Side of Lasagna Gardening Link > Lasagna Gardening and Sheet Mulching can be opposite of Green Living. If in regard to what I wrote, it looks like you got the point made. It would be some degree of hypocrisy like you suggested. And since others are already suggesting the good and evil, the hypocrisy potential seemed like a more useful element to interject.