John A Keslick, Jr                                               
Telephone- (610) 696-5353

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EMPLOYMENT DESIRED: Full time, year round work, so I can support my family.

 OBJECTIVE:

-          To increase my education and training and put my skills to good use.

-          Make honest profits from the latter while helping keep trees safe, healthy and attractive while reducing their capacity to interrupt service.

-          To communicate with the public in regards to the need of pruning, dose, timing and targets of trees near utility lines and the dangers which can be avoided by such care.

-          To discourage the public from planting large maturing trees near power lines and to communicate the proper care of low growing trees near power lines.

-          To increase the public image of the people who trim trees near utility lines.

-          To keep an open mind and work hard.

-          I hope to teach TREE BIOLOGY some day.

EDUCATION:

-          Tree Autopsy & Dissection Lab, two day lab with Dr. Alex L. Shigo in Portsmouth, NH

-          Eight 3.5 day workshops on New Tree Biology with Dr Alex L Shigo at Appalachia State Univ.

-          Twelve 2 day workshops in Portsmouth NH with Dr. Alex L Shigo on the following topics:

-          Modern Arboriculture as the textbook & History of Arboriculture

-          Tree Chemistry With Just A Little Fear & Chemistry You Can See

-          Microorganisms: Understanding Their Role in Tree Life and Death.

-          Understanding Modern Arboriculture

-          Chemistry Without Fear

-          Advanced Tree Anatomy; Chemistry of Trees & Treatments;

      -     Soil Chemistry; Fertilizers

-          Tree Autopsy and Dissection Lab

-          Concepts of Tree Chemistry & Biology

-     TREE AUTOPSY AND DISSECTION LAB WITH MICROSCOPES

-          Additional two day workshops with Dr. Alex L Shigo on the following topics:

-          Two workshops on Hazard Trees at Paul Smith’s College, Paul Smith NY

-          Trees as Systems at Pittsburgh Zoo, Pittsburgh PA

-          Digging Deeper for Better Solutions & Advanced Chemistry and Biology of Trees

at Ellicott City MD

-          Other two day workshops with other educators:

-          The Body Language of Trees with Dr. Claus Mattheck, physicist, with the Institute for Material Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, one workshop was in Philadelphia, PA and another was in Mahwah, NJ

-          Plant Biology Workshop with Dr. Don Marx, Plant Health Care, Inc.

               Education Center, Frogmore, SC

-          Wildlife, Pesticides and People with Rachel Carson Council, Inc. and the Dept. of Biology of George Mason University , Fairfax VA

-          Shade Wild Flowers at Rodale Institute Kutztown, PA

-          Chester County Master Composting Classes at the Health Department of Chester Co, PA

        I became a Certified Master Composter

-          Community Trees, Community Resources at Penn State Great Valley, PA

-          Additional one day workshops with Dr. Alex L Shigo on the following topics:

-          Trees as Systems at Penn State, Dauphin County PA

-          Nursery Seminar at Valley Forge Convention Center with the Nurserymen's Assoc

        Valley Forge PA

-          Tree Care Seminar at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 

-          Other workshops, classes attended and home study courses:

-          Professional Home Study Programs:

-          National Arborist Association, 1^st series, 2^nd series and Foreman

-          Certified Landscape Maintenance Operator & Supervisor by the Landscape Maintenance Assoc of FL

EXPERIENCE:

-          I invented a staking device CAMGUARDS® as an alternative to the injurious use of the wire in the

       hose.

-          Making phone calls, visiting college libraries, contacting USFS Libraries and contacting other researchers gathering technical reports, reading them, filing them and placing keywords in a database to better understand and care for trees and their associates.  Thus being able to better communicate with the public on critical issues.

-          Visited many Virgin Old Growth Forest to understand how the system is designed to function to see what things look like when they go right.

-          Dissected trees on jobs.

-          Climbed Trees to perform target pruning for 10 years.

-          Dug trees.

-          Examined woody and non-woody roots under a microscope.

-          Profiled trees.

 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

-          Keslick & Son Modern Arboriculture, Owner and Operator since 1991.

-          1998, Davis & Davis, a law firm in Uniontown, PA as a consultant on a tree fatal case.

-          1998-1999, Bob's Tree Preservation Co, Church Point, LA.

-          Consulted and taught the personnel at Tulane University regarding the care of their trees on campus.

-          Introduced the SHIGOMETER, a device that can detect problems existing in the underground woody root.

-          Autopsy performed on pine trees that were suspected to be killed by pine bark beetles.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

-          Eco-art Nurse Log Project.

-          Maintain an educational web page for public use.

-          Donated over 1000 Tree Basic Books to churches, schools and libraries worldwide.

-          I do community service at the community center and donate composted tree trimmings.

-          Working on children’s web page.

 MILITARY SERVICE:

Served and was honorably discharged from the US ARMY. My MOS was 36 kilo (tactical wire specialist)