by Danny Burbage | Mar 20, 2019 | On the Stump
If you are a regular reader of this column, you know that I am guilty of the occasional rant about how trees contribute to our society; environmentally, medically, psychologically and monetarily. Shoot, in the last edition of The Acorn, I even pontificated that trees...
by Danny Burbage | Jun 22, 2018 | On the Stump
As I began to think of Arbor Day this year, I remembered (with just a slight twinge), the seemingly countless times I listened to mayors, teachers and garden club ladies recite Joyce Kilmer’s famous poem, “Trees”. Simplistic in style and direct in purpose, it is a...
by Danny Burbage | Dec 19, 2016 | On the Stump
I thank my lucky stars each time I remember August 23, 1983. That was my first day as the City of Charleston Urban Forester. I had never heard that term before and didn’t have the faintest idea what it really meant; much less, how to be one. Snappy and intellectually...
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