Best Management Practices for Community Trees

"Best Management Practices for Community Trees is a Technical Guide to selecting, placing, conserving, protecting, maintaining, establishing, removing, and replacing trees in Athens-Clarke County (ACC), Georgia. Community trees include all trees within ACC, regardless of where they are located. They may be found growing on public or on private property. They are located in residential yards, along street right-of-ways, around commercial and industrial buildings, in parking lots, in parks, and on the grounds of government and institutional facilities. A healthy, functional, and attractive tree growing in any one of these locations provides benefits not only to the property owner, but to the surrounding community as well. The Best Management Practices (referred to throughout the Guide as “BMPs”) are technically correct and widely accepted practices and standards used by professional arborists, urban and community foresters, landscape architects and other tree care and landscape professionals. The goal of the BMPs is to provide you with basic and practical information on how to best accomplish the most important tree management activities. The goal of tree management is to maintain tree, forest, environmental, and community health." [from Manual Introduction] An extensive Tree Species List (following page 110) provides detailed characteristics for each species in the list.

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