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03/25/2025 | News release | Distributed by Public on 03/25/2025 11:37
A Springtime Ritual: Keeping Your Trees Healthy
As nature awakens, so should your tree care routine. Spring pruning encourages vigorous growth and helps easily identify winter damage and defects. It's essential to secure your trees' health during this season. Pruning is crucial for maintaining tree health, safety, and aesthetic appeal. Here are two resources from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to help keep trees healthy.
How to Prune Trees provides help for correctly pruning trees. The objective of pruning is to produce strong, healthy, attractive plants. This can be achieved by understanding how, when, and why to prune and following simple principles such as making correct cuts and avoiding damage to the tree. The publication contains information regarding when to prune different types of trees, safety measures, and more.
How To Recognize Hazardous Defects in Trees. This brochure was created to help homeowners and land managers recognize hazardous defects in trees and to suggest possible corrective actions to restore trees to good health. It presents guidelines for identifying and correcting hazardous defects such as dead wood, cracks, weak branch unions, decay, cankers, root problems, and poor tree form. The publication also emphasizes the importance of identifying trees that pose a risk to "targets," such as buildings, vehicles, or areas where people gather.
The key benefit of pruning is promoting tree health. Removing dead, diseased, or damaged branches prevents the spread of infection and pests, and improving airflow and sunlight penetration within the canopy reduces the risk of disease.
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