Green Buffers for Screening and Noise Reduction
This document discusses basic landscape tools and guidelines for optimizing sound reduction and visual screening.
How to Hire a Tree Service
Helpful suggestions for finding a tree service and avoiding many of the pitfalls involved
How to Take Pictures of Your Tree
When requested to send photographic images of your tree to an arborist for review, it is important to remember the following photography “Do’s” and “Don’ts.”
Is My Tree Safe?
All trees will fail at some point in their life, and all trees have some level of risk associated with them. Determining the likelihood of tree failure requires a significant level of experience and knowledge about how trees grow, how they fail, and what characteristics make a tree “risky.”
Making Your Home More Energy Efficient By Planting Trees
Learn the best ways to save money and energy through tree planting – a time tested method for reducing energy use.
Where are my trees’ roots?
Many people think removing a few of the tree’s encroaching roots will cause little long term harm and that large trees can easily recover from minor root loss, but that
is seldom the case.
What is my yard tree worth?
Homeowners often wonder about the value of their trees when removals appear necessary or when a tree has suffered damage at the hands of a contractor, neighbor, or storm.
What is my tree worth?
Homeowners often believe that trees in their landscape have economic value for use as lumber or other wood products. The main impediment to selling your landscape trees is the cost of their removal.
Tree Risk Management
Trees provide a host of benefits, but we have a responsibility to assess and minimize risks associated with the forest canopy.
What’s Not To Lichen
Helpful information about various forms of lichen.