Due to reasons such as pruning, location of growth and species characteristics, trees can grow in ways that don’t endorse long-term health and safety. To counter trees growing in unsafe ways, cabling, ...

My current example involves a 60-inch trunk diameter coast live oak. Half of the tree fell when one component failed in the cable system. Fortunately, there was no “occupancy” under or near the tree — ...

Splitting a turkey wishbone is good luck for someone, splitting a "wishbone" tree? Not so much, Photos: Tequask (turkey), Albert Herring (tree), Creative Commons ...

As autumn brings its beauty to Seattle, the city’s greenery turns gold, red and orange. But locals know autumn also means the annual threat of storms. Storms with high winds, heavy rains and ...

Being tied to our smartphones for work and life means these devices have to be charged often. Their cables stay hanging from sockets all day until needed, but when we plug in our phones at home, the ...

Cable 'tree', decorative souvenir of the 1858 transatlantic submarine telegraph cable, made by George Rapson, England, 1858-1865. Five short sections of original cable mounted vertically and joined by ...

Mother Nature has hammered us again. First in the checklist of cleaning up tree damage is patience. The most dangerous thing to be aware of is downed electrical lines hidden in the debris. I know the ...

CLEVELAND -- Dead branches, discolored leaves and trunk wounds can all be signs that you have a tree with a problem. Trees become more susceptible to toppling over after it rains. The rain causes the ...

The recent failure of a cable system in a huge coast live oak prompts me to revisit this topic. I touched on it last year, (Feb. 20, 2021: Tree Cables Need Professional Installation and Maintenance) ...