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Trees
General
- Trees Are Good – International Society of Arboriculture’s Fact Sheets
- Tree Owner Rights and Responsibilities
Diseases
Individual tree fact sheets
Selecting trees
- Site evaluation and species selection (pdf)
- Recommended Trees (pdf)
- Selecting quality trees from the nursery (pdf)
- Trees and Powerlines (pdf)
Planting trees
- Texas Tree Planting Guide – Texas Forest Service. Excellent!
- Proper Planting of Trees
- Planting and establishing trees (pdf)
Pruning trees
- Pruning trees (pdf)
- Pruning young trees (pdf)
- Pruning mature trees (pdf)
- Restoring trees following a storm (pdf)
- Pruning landscape trees and shrubs (pdf)
- Pruning objective (pdf)
- Pruning cut types (pdf)
- Developing a pruning plan (pdf)
- Structural pruning (pdf)
- Cleaning (pdf)
- Raising (pdf)
- Thinning (pdf)
- Reducing (pdf)
- Palms (pdf)
- Producing quality shade trees in the nursery (pdf)
- Cabling
Storms and trees
- Storm Damage Prevention and Treatment (pdf)
- Can Trees be Saved
- Wind and trees: lessons learned from hurricanes (pdf)
- Assessing hurricane-damaged trees and deciding what to do (pdf)
- Cleaning up after the storm (pdf)
- Hiring an arborist (pdf)
- Developing an urban forestry management plan for hurricane-prone communities (pdf)
