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It remains difficult to determine each tree's likelihood of failure, and post-outage investigations have made it evident that not all trees exhibit outwardly visible signs of an increased likelihood of failure.

The Research of Tree Failure

June 2, 2021

Matthew Walker

Matthew Walker is a Ph.D. student in Natural Resource Economics and Management at West Virginia University’s Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design. He conducts research in energy and forest resources, remote-sensing and utility vegetation management. He earned his master’s degree in forest resource management from WVU in 2020. Previously he has worked as a contract utility forester for ECI in Morgantown, West Virginia.