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Preparing Our Yards and Trees for Hurricane Season

Signature Tree Care Emergency Tree Work
Signature Tree Care
Signature Tree Care Emergency Tree Work

After Hurricane Irma swept through Southwest Florida during the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the devastation it left in its wake was a wake up call to many residents, who might have become complacent during the relative calm of the previous decade or so. But, with Irma still fresh in many people's minds, we're reminding people that being prepared includes more than just having water and food stored away. We’re now going to broaden our discussion to see what people should be doing with their yards, and the plants, and trees, they contain. We're joined in studio by Ian Orlikoff, he is an arborist, and owner of Signature Tree Care in Naples.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.