Technical Tree Information

• Preparing for a Natural Disaster
  Severe winds, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, ice storms - these events strike communities across the country with alarming regularity. Planning for when a natural disaster strikes can save lives, money and property and reopen emergency services quickly and efficiently. This page will provide a lot of useful, practical and easy to follow information on planning for natural disasters, developing hazard tree management programs to reduce damage, coping with disasters when they hit and re-greening your community afterward.
  
  
• Benefits of Trees
  This page includes a wide range of information on ways trees add value to communities. Researchers are starting to quantify these and the economic value of the benefits community trees provide may surprise you.
  
  
  
• Healthy Trees, Healthy Communities, Healthy People (coming soon)
  
  
  
• Planting, Pruning and Maintaining Trees (coming soon)