Julian Forbes-Laird is a Chartered Arboriculturist, Arboricultural Association Registered Consultant, experienced Expert Witness and Principal Consultant of Forbes-Laird Arboricultural Consultancy Ltd. Mr. Forbes-Laird has a professional practice working throughout the UK and overseas. He covers all aspects of arboriculture, specializing in planning, tree safety and litigation related matters.

Mr. Forbes-Laird is supported by a team of regionally based consultants, giving him national and international reach. He sets the standard for client service, works throughout the UK and abroad, provides commercially realistic strategic advice, prepares sensitive yet practical management plans, works within project design teams to evolve arboriculturally defensible layouts, wins planning appeals, and handles an enormous amount of work under pressing deadlines helping clients' achieve the best outcome.

Mr. Forbes-Laird is widely recognised as an authority on legal issues pertaining to trees and is an experienced Expert Witness. His expert services include Pre-Action Case Evaluation, TPO Prosecutions, Forensic Accident Investigation and Tree Root Damage to Buildings.

Other Services Include:

Planning for Developers and Local Authorities

Tree Preservation Orders (TPO's)

Safety Inspections

Subsidence

Expert Witness

Landscape Design

Marty Shaw is an Arboricultural Expert specializing in Plant & Tree Issues. His extensive experience and training can help solve the most complex tree issues including tree safety policy, insurance claims and personal injury cases. He is a plant and tree diagnostician who has many years of land planning, nursery, landscape design, installation and maintenance experience.

Mr. Shaw is a Registered Consulting Arborist (#470), ISA Certified Arborist (#SO-1234), a Certified Nursery Professional, and a Licensed Horticulturist.

Expert Witness Services:

Insurance Claims

Workplace Safety

Land Safety

Tree Hazard Evaluations

Risk Assesments

Tree Health Assessments

Tree Appraisals / Valuations

Diagnostics and Testing

Tree Case Consultation

Professional Services:

Training & Education

Tree Inventories

Canopy Evaluation

Historic Tree Preservation

Landscape Design

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John A. Harris, Principal of Landscape Economics, LLC, and President of Earth Advisors, Inc., is a LANDSCAPE ECONOMIST who has worked in the Arboriculture, Forestry, landscape and horticultural fields for over 20 years. Mr. Harris has provided reputable consulting, education and project management services for a wide variety of projects across the United States and internationally, in both temperate and tropical ecosystems.

Areas of Expertise:

Expert Witness for Arboricultural, Landscape, Nursery Values and Conditions

Landscape and Tree Risk Assessments

Landscape and Tree Value Appraisals

Landscape and Tree Damage Appraisals

Storm Damage Assessments and Recovery Plans

Landscape Health and Condition Evaluations

Arboricultural Health and Condition Evaluations

Landscape, Arboricultural, Forestry, Environmental Project Management

Environmental Due Diligence

Environmental Permitting and Mitigation Planning

Environmental Permit Negotiations

Municipal Tree Inventory and Management Plans

GPS/GIS Environmental Mapping Projects

Forest Resources Management Plans

Grounds Maintenance Practices

Arboricultural Practices

Eric H. Hoyer is a Certified Arborist involved in all aspects of Forestry and Arboriculture on both private and public lands. A Registered Consulting Arborist through ASCA, his background includes timber sales, reforestation, prescribed burning, management plans, herbiciding and appraisals. Mr. Hoyer coordinates site prep and herbicide / reforestation contractors and has experience with site preparation and reclamation planting on phosphate mines. He has also been a party to several real estate transactions involving acreage.

Mr. Hoyer has been involved in numerous court cases, providing depositions and serving as a qualified expert witness. His clients have included attorneys, landowners, homeowners, governmental entities, appraisers and others.

Services Offered:

Forestry Management

Forest Management Plans

Urban Forestry Management Plans

Timber Appraisals

Tree Inventories

Tree Risk Assessments

Tree Appraisals

Protection of Trees During Construction

Expert Testimony

Dr. Tracey D. Carrillo provides reliable, accurate Expert Services and Consulting for Agricultural, Environmental, Biological and Ecological related issues. Clientele have included; Legal Firms, Insurance Companies, Private Parties, as well as State and Federal entities. Pro Ag consultants serves the entire US and Canada. Some of Dr. Carrillo's past cases have included areas of: herbicide drift, disease transmission, insurance evaluation for crop failure, pesticide misuse, vaporization of herbicides to non targets, environmental impact from pesticide misuse, fungicide misapplication, and others. Expertise Includes:

• Herbicide misuse
• Soil Contamination
• Pesticides
• Plant physiology
• Fertilizer Applications
• Crop Loss
• Plant Diseases

Steven Geist, Plant Pathologist, has 25 years of Landscape Care Experience with Swingle Lawn, Tree and Landscape Care in Denver, Colorado. He is a Registered Consulting Arborist, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist, and a Certified Professional Agronomist.

Mr. Geist specializes in working with urban landscapes, diagnosing plant problems and designing solutions. As part of his work at Swingle, he has had the opportunity to consult with homeowners concerned with a single tree all the way up to 1,000 acre casualty losses.

Mr. Geist's consulting has included property in Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado and NewMexico.

Russell E. Carlson, DBA Tree Tech Consulting, is a Registered Consulting Arborist, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist and Forensic Arborist.

Qualifications:

Member, American Society of Consulting Arborists

Registered Consulting Arborist #354, 1994

Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers, Representative and co-author

Member: International Society of Arboriculture

ISA Board Certified Master Arborist #PD-0008B, 1983

Certified Tree Risk Assessor #891, PNW ISA

Court-approved witness in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Services: With more than 32 years of experience in Arboriculture, Tree Tech Consulting offers services in the following area:

Diagnosis of Tree and Landscape Problems

Risk Assessment and Hazardous Tree Inspections

Forensic Investigations

Litigation and Insurance Support

Tree and Landscape Appraisal and Valuation

Arboricultural Practices

Insect and Disease Identification

Tree Protection and Management for Construction

Preparation of Contract Specifications

Tree

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