Tree Protection BMPs for Contractors and Builders

"Best Management Practices for Community Trees is a Technical Guide to selecting,  conserving, protecting, maintaining, removing, and replacing trees on development sites in Chattanooga and surrounding areas.This guide is aimed at helping all people who work around trees during the development and construction phases of both new and existing projects to utilize accepted tree care standards that will give preferred trees the maximum chance for survival.The Best Management Practices (referred to throughout the Guide as “BMPs”) are technically correct and widely accepted practices and standards used by construction professionals as recommended by professional arborists, urban and community foresters, landscape architects and other tree care and landscape professionals.  The goal of the Guide is to provide you with basic and practical information on how to best accomplish the most important tree management activities that will give trees on development sites the best chance for surviving and thriving during and after the construction process. It should be noted that while these BMPs are good standards they don’t guarantee 100% success nor should it be implied that by not following them dooms one’s efforts to failure and, finally, these quidelines are strictly voluntary!" [Introduction]

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