A Photographic Guide to the Evaluation of Hazard Trees in Urban Areas
by James R. Clark, Nelda P. Matheny
A practical tool for evaluating urban tree hazards. Provides a systematic rating approach to identify risks, rank severity, and prioritize management work.
About This Book
This guide provides a systematic rating approach for evaluating the hazard potential of urban trees.
Tree evaluations help managers identify hazard situations, rank their relative severity, and create a priority for work.
Key aspects include reviewing past and present site conditions and identifying structural defects in roots, root crown, trunk, and tree crown.
The guide covers evaluation of likely and significant failure and assessment of the significance of the target.
Development of the hazard rating is explained with full color photos and appendices.
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