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Many topics currently listed under these categories can also be found in Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning, 3rd Edition, and are identified with an asterisk (*).
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)