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In this Issue
Urban Pest Management in Australia 5th Edition For 23 years and through four editions, Urban Pest Management in Australia has been the major reference work for Australian pest control operators. This fifth edition has been extensively revised to support the constantly evolving pest management industry. It provides comprehensive information on the protection for plants and property. It features an accessible new format, fully updated chapters, additional colour plates and extra content, including a new section on putting pest control into practice. Ion Staunton draws on his 50 years of industry knowledge as a pest controller to bring Gerozisis and Hadlington’s pest management ‘bible’ to a new generation of technicians. Buy your copy online or pick it up at the Tree Logic bookshop located at head office. $63.95 - RRP is normally $69.95 
Wattle (Acacia binervia) Coast Mayall (J.C.Wendl J.F.Macbr) Following on from the Olympics and the swell of pride in our nation, we thought it was time to look at a quintessential Australian tree, the wattle. This is an iconic tree that has been Australia’s national floral emblem for almost 100 years. Let’s see how she fares in the new millennium. 
Tree Injection Equipment Arbojet Arborjet delivery systems are world renowned for their ease of use and ability to deliver a broad range of pest control, disease control, and nutritional products. Tree Logic use and recommend these products and they are now available for you from the Tree Logic on-line store. 
It's Spring - Time to Fertilise Time to fertilise now. Carbo Drenching Recently published research in the application of carbohydrates (sucrose) in root drenches 
Urban Forest - striving for a natural balance The next seminar to be held by Tree Logic will be looking at the necessity to re-introduce nature into our urban lives. Confirmed speakers include Thomas Randrup from University of Copenhagen and Kathleen Wolf from Washington University who will provide a holistic perspective covering sociological, psychological and economic factors. The seminar will also focus on how to manage implementation. 
Dates for the diary March 2009 – Tree Logic Seminar Urban Forest – striving for a natural balance
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Tree Logic has teamed up with Arcpad expert Stephen Fitzgerald of Stephen Fitzgerald Arboriculture to create a state-of-the-art fully customised tree management software application for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. “Given the significance of the tree resource, it was necessary to create a program that captured much more detail than a typical municipal survey” said Dean Simonsen, Arboricultural Consultant and Director of Tree Logic. “The Garden’s database currently has nearly 70 fields, which means there is little not known about any individual tree” he said. The entire application, used on a daily basis by arboricultural staff, was created in Arcpad with links provided to external databases to allow archiving of historic records. Stephen Fitzgerald was instrumental in developing and improving the application lending his advanced understanding of Arcpad programming and tree management expertise.
With the help of Tree Logic the City of Newcastle is on track to knowing exactly what trees are located in their streets and parks. From April until the middle of August, staff from Tree Logic escaped the Melbourne cold to undertake a full street and park tree inventory of greater Newcastle and its inner suburbs. Mapping was predominantly undertaken by plotting against council’s aerial photographs but Global Positioning Systems were used when required. The data collected for each tree, park or vacant site was specified by the client and a form was developed in Arcpad to expedite and qualify the entry of field data using mobile computers. By the end of the project Tree Logic had mapped and attributed more than 60,000 sites. The City of Newcastle are now familiar with the number of vacant sites that exist in their streets, which provides sound direction for future planting
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So who were the winners?
This year as part of Arbor Day celebrations Tree Logic ran tree planting workshops to celebrate at two Melbourne primary schools. The morning workshop took place at Orchard Grove Primary School, Blackburn South, with the tree planting crew joined by Grade 3 & 4 who helped dig, fertilise and water in their new trees. The morning started with a brief history of Arbor Day in Australia and then a group discussion about the value of trees in the urban environment. In total six Spotted Gums (Corymbia maculata) were planted around the outer edge of the school oval to continue the existing stand.
The afternoon tree planting workshop took place at Dandenong South Primary School. Initially the tree planting crew were expecting to be joined by Grade 5/6s however as word spread more classes arrived with approximately 50 students watching and participating in the tree planting activities. Students were encouraged to think about the benefits trees provide for the environment and to sketch the tree planting activities. Specially selected students were chosen to plant six Spotted Gums (Corymbia maculata) along the northern property boundary to replace old trees that had been removed. One member of the school community was so impressed with the Spotted Gums he asked Tree Logic to come and plant at his place!
To help acclimatise to their new environment at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne, the figs are currently at tree boot camp reducing their reliance on light by 50%. They have 6-8 weeks to adjust to what will be their new living conditions. According to Dave Balsamo from Tree Logic the trees are on track.
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African Tulip Tree detail
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