DAVE MUFFLY

Dave Muffly is a tree researcher, educator, consultant, manager, and entrepreneur. Dave specializes in oaks, street trees, climate change adaptation, urban-wildland interface plantings, and strategic tree planning.

After receiving a Mechanical Engineering degree from Stanford University, Dave started his tree career establishing oaks by the thousand on Stanford wildlands. Dave then branched into fruit trees, helping distribute 60,000 fruit trees over 15 years to school kids all over California. Traveling by bike with no car for 15 years, Dave became a keen observer of urban trees in the Bay Area, gaining his Certified Arborist credential in 1998, and his Board Certified Master Arborist credential in 2008.

In 2010, Dave came to the attention of Steve Jobs and was hired to spend 7 years as Senior Arborist at Apple, Inc., directing the growing and planting of 9,000 trees of more than 100 types at Apple's massive new Cupertino campus., Apple Park.

If your company is interested in a tree planting project of any scale, from urban campus landscaping to large scale carbon sequestration or biodiverse habitat creation, my 30 years of experience and achievement are exceptional within the landscape and ecological restoration industries.

Dave's most important work is introducing new climate adapted trees to the California nursery industry. This is Dave’s main website and he currently lives in Santa Barbara, but ranges throughout California and the American Southwest to learn, teach, and grow cool trees.