Assessing Landscape Tree Loss after a Disaster
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/disaster/490-319/490-319.html
Along with assessing structural damage to property caused by a storm or flood, property owners may need to calculate the financial loss represented by damage to trees and other landscaping. This publication helps owners determine the value of the damaged trees and landscaping.
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Chain Saw Safety after a Disaster
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/disaster/490-306/490-306.html
Chain saws can be great laborsaving tools. But if not operated properly and with respect, they can quickly cause severe injury and death. This publication addresses some potential hazards that may be encountered while using a chain saw.
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Evaluation and Management of Storm-Damaged Timber
http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/forestry_education/insects_and_diseases/diseases/storm_damaged_timber/02-13a-98.html
Homeowners often ask what can be done to save damaged shade and ornamental trees and forest landowners are interested in how to assess the damage to their timber. In addition to the direct damage caused by the wind, insects and fungi often cause additional losses.
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Flood Damage to Trees
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=104
Most trees and woody shrubs are not adapted well to flooded conditions. There are a range of flood tolerance levels among different species and individuals. There are a number of growth form, anatomy, and physiology changes available in tolerant plants to try and minimize flooding damage and growth constraints.
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Hurricane-damaged Shade, Ornamental, and Fruit Trees
http://msucares.com/pubs/infosheets/is1355.htm
A brief guide to single tree care after catastrophic weather events.
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Hurricanes, Trees and Forests: A Selected Bibliography
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=175
Hurricanes and trees do not mix well. This publication cites recent publications and journal articles which deal with various aspects of hurricane impacts on trees and forests. This not a comprehensive review but selected to provide a broad view of work a...
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Pruning Guide for Storm Force Reduction in Tree Crowns
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=411
Storm force impacts on trees can lead to catastrophic structural failures. Wind loads on trees are concentrated in the crowns acting near the end of a long lever arm (the stem) at some distance from the ground. Generated forces are centered at a point app...
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Storm Damaged Trees: Prevention and Treatments
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=53
Thousands of shade and street trees are lost every year to wind, ice and lightning. Estimates of property value loss in Georgia from this type of tree damage can exceed $10 million annually. This value does not include future liability problems. Georgia h...
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The Storm-Damaged Landscape after a Disaster
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/disaster/490-329/490-329.html
This check list provides suggestions as to how an owner can assess and repair damaged landscape after a storm.
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Understanding Lightning and Associated Tree Damage Protection
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=108
Lightning severely damages of kills thousands of trees a year. Many of these trees line community streets and are around homes and schools. Lightning strikes ground somewhere on Earth 9 million times a day--6,200 times a minute--100 times per second. Geor...
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