Obvious Tree Defects Guide

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The current version (v1.6) of VALID's ‘Obvious Tree Defects Guide’ can be downloaded from the website as a pdf here.

 

https://tinyurl.com/y679ucl4

 

This guide is for non-arborists. It’s free, and you’re welcome to share it with your clients, colleagues, and friends. The guide is there to encourage the kind of citizen science tree risk assessment that happens every day, and all the time. Which is why ‘Passive Assessment’* is such a valuable tree risk management asset.

 

The only difference in this version to the previous one is it occurred to me that ‘tree defect’ is arb-speak.  A civilian is more likely to think about whether a tree is ‘dangerous’ or not. So, the new headline is ‘When might a tree be dangerous?’

 

*Passive Assessment - Keeping an eye for obvious tree defects, you can’t help but notice, as you go about your day to day routine.

 

Edited August 19, 2019 by Acer ventura