Russell E. Carlson, RCA, BCMA
— Tree Tech Consulting

Russ Carlson has worked in the field of arboriculture for more than 45 years as a commercial arborist and 30 years as an independent consulting arborist. Throughout his career Russ has taken a multidisciplinary approach to arboriculture, with a broad knowledge of trees, the environment, and the associations of trees and people. Projects include tree risk assessment and diagnosis, tree trespass, tree appraisal, personal injury and fatality cases involving trees and related issues, forensic investigations and reconstruction, tree and landscape inventories, insect and disease diagnostics, environmental analysis and mitigation, construction design and planning for trees and remediation for damaged trees, and preparation of project specifications for tree preservation and management.

Since 1983, Russ has been a Certified Arborist with the Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter of ISA, and with the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) when the program became international in 1993. In 2004, he qualified as an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist. He has been a member and Registered Consulting Arborist of the American Society of Consulting Arborists since 1994. In 2010, he became a Certified Tree Risk Assessor, and in 2013 achieved the ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification when the program was initiated. Russ is a Licensed Tree Expert in both Maryland and New Jersey.

Russ has been qualified as an expert witness in courts in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and has assisted in cases throughout the United States. He has also presented workshops, seminars, and lectures at various venues in the United States and internationally, and served as an instructor at the American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA) Consulting Academy from 1997 through 2010, developing and teaching the Report Writing and the Forensic Investigations training modules.

Clients include homeowners, commercial property owners and managers, municipalities and government agencies, insurance companies, law firms and attorneys, developers and builders, tree care companies, and various people and organizations with interests in trees and tree care.