Killer Trees and Negligence — International Society of Arboriculture

Killer Trees and Negligence

Killer Trees and Negligence (#TA 1)

Joe R Samnik ¹ , Christopher Luley ² , Theordore Karatinos ³

SAMNIK&BALLARD, LLC, Palm Harbor, FLORI, United States
Urban Forestry LLC- Naples, Naples, New York, United States
Holliday,Bomhoff & Karatinos,PL, Lutz, Florida, United States

Trees and litigation have become a significantly critical component of our industry. There are no longer accidents; only negligence, and how to manage the crisis in the after situation of being named as a litigant. This presentation will explore how to best avoid being named as a litigant in the first place, by examining the concepts and applications of tree law and the misconception regarding perceived tree risk assessment of the discrepancies and significant gaps in knowledge that exist at each level of biology, standards and assessment/maintenance.

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Authors contributing to this abstract.

Samnik, J.R

Luley, C

Christopher J. Luley, Ph.D. joined Urban Forestry LLC in the fall of 2004. Prior to joining Urban Forestry, Dr. Luley was a technical advisor and urban forestry consultant for 14 years with two major northeast tree care and consulting companies. He also was State Forest Pathologist for Missouri and managed the Plant Diagnostic Clinic for Iowa State University. His graduate degrees are in forest pathology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse and Iowa State University. He specializes in urban forest and pest management, and diagnosis of wood decay in urban trees. Dr. Luley has over 50 technical publications on urban tree topics and three books in publication, one on the decay fungi common to urban living trees in the Northeast and Central United State, a second on pest management in the landscape, and a third on pruning young and small urban trees.

Killer Trees and Negligence (#TA 1)

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