A Photographic Guide to the Evaluation of Hazard Trees in Urban Areas

Here is a marvelous tool for evaluating the hazard potential of urban trees! By providing a systematic rating approach, tree evaluations allow managers to identify hazard situations, rank their relative severity, and create a priority for work. Important aspects discussed in the guide include: review of past and present site conditions; identification and assessment of structural defects in root, root crown, trunk, and tree crown; evaluation of likely and significant failure; assessment of the significance of the target; development of the hazard rating. (1994, softcover, 85 pp., full color photos, appendices)