Tree Risk Management
Communities can deal with risk in several ways:
1.Risk Avoidance
2.Risk Management
Your community decides how to manage trees to reduce risk and prepare for disasters.
1.
It is NOT necessary to practice risk avoidance in order to be better prepared for disasters.

| Communities have choices in dealing with risk of all types.
| Cities that choose:
| •risk avoidance and eliminate all risks in the area of interest;
| •others will manage [tree] risk so that benefits of the trees can be retained at some acceptable level (of risk).
| It is NOT necessary to practice risk avoidance in order to be better prepared for disasters.