Resource Number: 17074
Title: Assessing Tree Pruning Dose & Damage
Description: The act of pruning is a stressful and stunting process for a tree. Knowing how much (dose) to prune, as well as how much damage a tree has sustained, has been left to the experienced eye of a tree health care provider. Many trees are being over-pruned and damaged in each pruning cycle. More careful and quantitative pruning assessments are needed. Pruning can also be a point of liability risk to practitioner and client. Wounds open trees to colonization by a myriad of organisms, to environmental problems, and to structural integrity losses from setting of defensive boundaries. Mechanical damage is one of the worst forms of damage with which a tree must biologically deal.
Last Updated: August 12, 2022
Contributors:
Domain(s)/Area(S):
- Arboriculture
Locations:
| Subject |
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| pruning (general) |
| risk tree |
| tree anatomy |