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Just watched "The Al Shigo Story" by his best friend Charley Owens.
If anyone is wondering who this Shigo guy is and what is all the fuss about him they can find out in this wonderful 90 minute narrative that is very nostalgic in many ways. $25 will get you ownership and, who knows, it may start you on a whirlwind of learning that many in this video attest to. An epiphany of sorts is something we all look for at times isn't it instead of beating up on them all the time?
It can be found at Shigo Trees and Associates. I'll get the link if anyone shows interest.
And/or I'd like to hear some memories from AS members of the late Dr. Al Shigo.
Interesting to find out that he was just about to start the 4th segment of his life (in his words) where he was to come full circle and go back to scientist/researcher vocation and the microscope for some curiosities he had developed during his teaching and book writing period.
Alex Shigo dissected 15,000 trees with a chainsaw longitudinally for research when no one had even done one prior to him in researching wound response, compartmentalization (he invented this word) of decay amongst many other things.
If anyone is wondering who this Shigo guy is and what is all the fuss about him they can find out in this wonderful 90 minute narrative that is very nostalgic in many ways. $25 will get you ownership and, who knows, it may start you on a whirlwind of learning that many in this video attest to. An epiphany of sorts is something we all look for at times isn't it instead of beating up on them all the time?
It can be found at Shigo Trees and Associates. I'll get the link if anyone shows interest.
And/or I'd like to hear some memories from AS members of the late Dr. Al Shigo.
Interesting to find out that he was just about to start the 4th segment of his life (in his words) where he was to come full circle and go back to scientist/researcher vocation and the microscope for some curiosities he had developed during his teaching and book writing period.
Alex Shigo dissected 15,000 trees with a chainsaw longitudinally for research when no one had even done one prior to him in researching wound response, compartmentalization (he invented this word) of decay amongst many other things.
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