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Trees

Don't Top

• Anti-Topping Literature Packet
• Birch Butchery and Other Topping Atrocities
• Doug Fir and Conifer Pruning
• Exceptions to the Rules, Part 1:Topping and Heading Trees
• Exceptions to the Rules, Part 2: Crown Reduction
• Five Reasons to Stop Topping
• The Truth About Tree Topping
• Warning: Topping is Hazardous to Your Health

Tree Species

• Cherries, Ornamental*
• Crabapples*
• Dogwood Trees*
• Holly*
• Japanese Laceleaf Maples*
• Japanese Upright Maples*
• Juniper, Hollywood*
• Laurel*
• Lilac*
• Magnolias*
• Ornamental Cherries, Crabapples & Purple Leaf Plums*
• Photinia*
• Plum, Purple Leaf*
• Smoke Tree*
• Strawberry Tree or Bush*
• Weeping Cherries*
• Yews: New Life to Old Yews

Tree Care

• Benefits of City Trees
• Construction Damage
• How To Find A Good Arborist
• How To Plant A Tree
• How To Prune a Limb
• Ice Damage
• Rehabilitative Pruning For Trees
• Root Flare, Trunk Flare or Signal Flare
• Training Young Trees
• Water Your Trees

Miscellaneous Trees

• Hazard Tree Information (includes lists of weak and strong trees)
• Hazard Tree Packet (includes several articles about Hazard Trees)
• Hazardous Trees
• Hazardous Trees: The Second Storm
• My Tree Is Too Big
• No Place for Old Trees: Part I
• No Place for Old Trees: Part II
• No Place for Old Trees: Part III
• No Place for Old Trees: Part IV
• No Place for Old Trees: Part V
• Sad Trees
• Saving Trees and Views
• The Straight Skinny On The Life Of Limbs
• Trees And Views Packet
• Trimming Or Torture
• Wrongs Done to Trees

Specialized Pruning

• Big Tree Pruning (available only in Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning, 3rd Edition)
• Hedges (available only in Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning, 3rd Edition)
• No Wind Sailing (DNR)
• Pollarding
• Powerlines
• Pruning Art
• Pruning Near Utility Lines (from Tree Man magazine)
• Suckers and Waterspouts*
• Summer Pruning
• Wind Sail Reduction (E. Walker)