Rappoport Development Consulting Services LLC

Sprinkler irrigation systems have a number of below and on grade components. If not not properly specified on landscape plans, or incorrectly installed in the field, certain components can become hazardous obstacles causing an accident and lawsuit.

Landscape contractors are held to a higher standard of care for landscape construction projects. Savvy landscape contractors who utilize construction project management avoid common pitfalls that often result in legal action.

As the Rim Fire ravaged outlying communities near Yosemite National Park, Cal Fires employed thousands of fire fighters, helicopters, water tankers and equipment to combat the blaze. Then the blaze entered Yosemite Park, what happened?

First we had the gold spotted oak borer ravaging our native oaks, now the non-selective polyphagous wood borer beetle is attacking hundreds of species of favorite street, park, landscape and crop trees. Are you helping spread the infections?

PlanCom Inc., an environmental telecommunications consulting firm hired Jeremy Rappoport, President of Rappoport Development Consulting Services LLC, as a certified arborist sub-consultant for the Catalina Standpipe project in Point Loma, California.

I attended a botanical skills workshop yesterday, presented by Matt Ritter, Ph.D, a professor of Botany at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.

Using your landscape contractor or gardener as your landscape designer? If so, you should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages using a design-build landscape contractor, if using and unlicensed gardener, beware!

We already know many benefits derived from trees, including energy savings, reduced storm water runoff and erosion control, reducing greenhouse gases and producing oxygen, but trees can also physically filter and trap particulate matter from the air!

Using a gardener for mowing the lawn is one thing, but relying on the gardener as a landscape and tree care professional is a big mistake. Read the article to discover why an unlicensed, uneducated gardener can lead to big problems.

Certain Eucalyptus trees are known to drop limbs, sometimes completely unexpectedly. Any tree that drops limbs is problematic, but when a 100' tall Eucalyptus drops a 12" diameter limbs, the results can be catastrophic!