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1 Trees And other things that get in the way of surveyors Tom Mortensen, RLA, ASLA Site Planner / Landscape Architect RA Smith National

2 I am not An Arborist A Horticulturalist A Botanist A Surveyor so I know enough to be dangerous

3 I am a Landscape Architect so I need to know enough about: Arboriculture Horticulture Botany Surveying Engineering Stormwater Ecology Architecture Planning...to be even more dangerous

4 I want to thank and Google

5 What we ll (try to) cover Basic tree identification tips Good trees Bad trees Proper (and improper) pruning techniques Tree protection methods pre and post construction Common tree diseases Girdling roots, soil compaction and other ways to slowly kill a tree Tree maintenance, mulching, fertilizing, cabling, aerating New planting techniques

6 Don t cut down (too many) trees

7 Do you know of a cheap tree guy? or have an expensive homeowners policy?

8 Parking lots are brutal

9 What killed the tree?

10 Basic Tree I.D. National Arbor Day Foundation Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment Virginia Tech Tree ID - Android Apps on Google Play Free Winter Twig Identification Champaign County, IL Forest Preserves Trees of Wisconsin Field Guide

11 Basic Tree I.D. - Conifer Spruce Pine

12 Basic Tree I.D. - Conifer Red Cedar White Cedar

13 Basic Tree I.D. - Conifer Fir Hemlock

14 Basic Tree I.D. - Conifer Tamarack fall color Bald Cypress fall color

15 Basic Tree I.D. - Deciduous White Oak Red Oak

16 Basic Tree I.D. - Deciduous Sugar Maple Red Maple

17 Basic Tree I.D. - Deciduous Basswood Aspen

18 Basic Tree I.D. - Deciduous Elm Catalpa

19 Good Trees * Bad Trees Sugar Maple (in the right soils) & Cultivars Red Maple (in the right soils) & Cultivars Red Oak (in the right soils) White Oak (in the right soils) Swamp White Oak (adaptable) Hackberry (adaptable) Catalpa (fast growing - messy) Musclewood (native understory) Birch (in the right soils) Kentucky Coffeetree (older = better) Hawthorn (cedar apple rust) Beech (in the right soils) Ironwood (in the right soils) Aspen (certain applications) Basswood (American varieties) Elm & Cultivars (hybrid) Silver Maple (weak wood seeks water lines) Box Elder (weedy) Norway Maple (invasive & messy) Littleleaf Linden (European, susceptible to borer) Crabapple (only use disease resistant varieties) Cherry (susceptible to canker short lived) Flowering Pear (flowers smell like vomit - overplanted) Horsechestnut (leaf scorch messy) Honeylocust (overplanted but adaptable) Austrian Pine (overplanted, susceptible to pine borer) Colorado Spruce (overplanted, susceptible to canker, fungus) Scotch Pine (invasive in some areas) Black Locust (weak wooded, invasive) Black Walnut (toxicity) Ash (Emerald Ash Borer)

20 Pruning Techniques Blunt cuts make witches brooms

21 Pruning Techniques Before After

22 Pruning Techniques

23 Pruning Techniques Nature s Pruning Don t Do This Desired Result

24 Seasonal Pruning Times Google It! Dormant Pruning Corrective (Structural) Pruning Seasonal Pruning Not all trees are the same!

25 Tree Protection Methods

26 Tree Protection Methods

27 Tree Protection Methods Damage is Done

28 Tree Protection Methods Pre Construction Proper Tree Protection Pre-construction Root Severing

29 Tree Protection Methods Pre Bidding

30 Tree Diseases and Great Names for Heavy metal rock bands

31 Tree Diseases Slime flux

32 Tree Diseases Slime mold

33 Tree Diseases Black knot

34 Tree Diseases Blister rust

35 Tree Diseases Anthracnose not anthrax!

36 Tree Diseases Tar spot

37 Tree Diseases Oak wilt

38 Tree Diseases Dutch elm disease

39 Tree Diseases Apple scab

40 Tree Diseases Cytospora canker

41 Tree Diseases rhizosphaera needle cast

42 How to Slowly (or quickly) Kill a Tree

43 How to Slowly (or quickly) Kill a Tree Mulch Volcanos - You see them everywhere, except in the woods

44 How to Slowly (or quickly) Kill a Tree

45 How to Slowly (or quickly) Kill a Tree

46 Girdling Roots How to Slowly (or quickly) Kill a Tree

47 How to Slowly (or quickly) Kill a Tree

48 Tree Maintenance Cabling and Bolting

49 Tree Maintenance

50 Tree Maintenance Frost Crack

51 Tree Maintenance Browsing, windburn, rubbing, rodents

52 Tree Planting Silva Cells

53 Tree Planting

54 Tree Planting

55 Questions? Tom Mortensen, RLA, ASLA Site Planner / Landscape Architect RA Smith National

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