Bob Wulkowicz is known in green business circles for his innovative and thought-provoking original concepts about the systems and processes of trees. His works include, The Gossamer Engine, The Mathematics of Vascular Cambia and The Origins of Ram's Horn.

His tree saving programs in Chicago during a drought received a Gold Leaf Award in 1988 and helped save some 40,000 trees in crisis. His concepts and designs are cited in the new 3rd edition of Harris' Arboriculture

With that new invention popularly known as the Tree Sausage, (Bob attempted to make it more scholarly by calling it the Hydro Kielbasa Polyethelus but to no avail.) It is available for drought solutions and remeadiation of subsidence problems where extended droughts are about to decimate trees and damage buildings or structures.

During his time at the Chicago Park District, Bob's efforts included the first comprehensive studies of park soils in the Chicago area and many new concepts and projects for trees, urban landscapes, open space issues, conservation, pollution control--and issues of public safety and health.

His demonstration projects including the first Drought-Proof Park advanced water conservation and drought-proofing issues, and supported and enhanced park landscapes, replaced conventional irrigation, and lowered neighborhood storm water loads. The next evolution of those concepts were then applied on Chicago's lakefront to deal with storm water pollution and are now required by his local regulatory agencies as the solution of choice.

Bob's background is diverse. Before his interest in trees became his main passion, Bob, as an individual public safety designer, went to the White House to receive the National Endowment for the Arts' highest engineering honor in the quadrennial Presidential Design Awards for his successes in saving park land and reducing auto accidents,.

Under his philosophy of "being green often requires being shrewd," Bob's later traffic engineering analysis are now used nationwide by the Army Corps of Engineers, but his concepts were actually designed to help leverage transportation money to safeguard the lakeside parks and resulted in the full funding of the Corps' $475 million Chicago Shoreline Protection Project.

At the present time as a rather senior student, Bob is finishing up his B.Sc. in Invention and Innovation at Northeastern Illinois University and also hosts a very popular free-wheeling set of forums inside Doug Mellor's deservedly famous ARBORICULTURE, TREES AND TIMBER

Looking back over a career with many hats, Bob considers himself to be a wandering trouble shooter in a world awash with various troubles for trees, environmental funding and many public issues. He is pleased to make contributions where he can, and he fiercely argues that everyone in the green business can be innovative and inventive on behalf of our landscapes and trees.