[CANUFNET] tree protection

[Philip van Wassenaer via CANUFNET]

We are using CAD, GPS and GIS for various components of our work. These are
the tools that all the other professional involved in these projects are
using as well so we need to be able to get them what they need.

Generally we see the surveyor as the professional that can provide the tree
locations with required accuracy. After that someone else on the team needs
to add in a scaled canopies and Tree Protection Zones. We either provide TPZ
and tree hoarding requirements  to the team or prepare those details if we
have the budget in our bucket.

I agree that the industry needs to mature to a profession if we are to be
taken seriously and get a place at the table at the start. This is where we
need to be if we are to have a chance to work properly with the trees.

Cheers,


Philip van Wassenaer, B.SC., MFC
Urban Forest Innovations Inc.
1331 Northaven Drive
Mississauga ON L5G 4E8
Tel:  (905) 274-1022
Cell: (647) 221-3046
Fax: (905) 274-2170


www.urbanforestinnovations.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: CANUFNET [mailto:canufnet-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of Julian
Dunster via CANUFNET
Sent: January-19-17 11:57 AM
To: Michael Richardson; Canadian Urban Forest Network
Subject: Re: [CANUFNET] tree protection

Many of arborists in Britain regularly use GPS, GIS, and CAD routinely for
development projects. One of them developed special CAD software for the
purpose. The lack of its use in Canada almost certainly reflects a lack it
being taught in curricula, as part of professional practice. We still focus
on pruning, planting, fertilising and tree stuff, all of which is fine but
needs expanding to the 21st century to include effective use of technology.
Several of my colleagues in BC use CAD all the time. I use GPS and GIS.

We need to expand the horizon of what arboriculture and urban forestry might
/ should entail. At the same time we can also inform surveyors and
architects of we expect them to produce - such as CAD symbols for canopy
that are scaled to reality on the ground, not simply rubber stamped on a
plan, all at the same size (a pet peeve).

On Behalf of Dunster and Associates Environmental Consultants Ltd.


Dr. Julian A Dunster R.P.F., R.P.P.., M.C.I.P., ISA Certified Arborist, ASCA
Registered Consulting Arborist # 378, ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualified BC
Wildlife Danger Tree Assessor Honourary Life Member ISA + PNWISA

North American distributor for Rinntech
www.dunster.ca

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> Some interesting thoughts here.
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> Those little dots; most arborists I know do not have the equipment or 
> expertise to to locate trees with any precision, nor the GIS software 
> to plot them.  If an arborist is using a plan created by a surveyor 
> than surely the arborist must locate and plot not the tree, but the 
> entire trunk diameter or root collar/trunk flare with the same 
> accuracy and precision.
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