Amenity Trees: Defining Concepts In Use
University Outreach Publication
The term or concept of "amenity trees" has three components critical to understandings. The concepts are: the term "tree," a definitional problem which is not described here; the concept of "amenity" by traditional definition and current professional usage; and, the recognition of service and value by humans.
(SFR04-04) May 2004
Kim D. Coder
June 2004
Warnell School of Forest Resources University of Georgia
Athens, GA
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Aesthetics, Air Quality/Pollution, Ecological Linkages, Economics/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Infrastructure (green), Landscape Ecology, Ordinances/Regulation, Property Values, Public Policy
National
Tree values, Leaf characteristics