| Proper Pruning cuts are made with the overall | | | | allows trees to be pruned away from buildings, |
| health of specific trees in mind. While pruning | | | | utility lines or any other structure that may |
| trees, it's important to follow cutting guidelines | | | | interfere with their health and overall appearance. |
| that help your tree's natural ability to fend off | | | | It also helps weaker trees support the weight of |
| infections. This natural ability is called | | | | their major branches during high winds and storm. |
| C.O.D.I.T(Compartmentalization Of Disease In | | | | - Crown Raising is recommended when trees are |
| Trees). General factors to consider include the | | | | growing too close to walkways and roads or to |
| effects of pruning during different months of the | | | | allow easier access while people walk under their |
| year, and pruning for structural integrity. Individual | | | | canopies and around their main trunks. Raising the |
| trees have specific factors that should be | | | | canopy of a tree requires the lower branches to |
| considered to determine which branches to | | | | be cut with the future growth of the lower |
| remove, such as: surrounding trees/structures | | | | branches planned ahead of time. |
| that may effect the growth of branches, the | | | | - Crown Rejuvenation For Structural Integrity |
| amount of sunlight your tree receives, and so on. | | | | requires all dead/dying and intersecting branches |
| The easiest way to determine the specific needs | | | | to be removed regularly from trees. Dead |
| of your trees is to have a professional arborist | | | | branches are a great place for disease and |
| come to your house to look at them with you. | | | | infections to live. If all dead branches are not |
| Arborists can easily identify specific problem areas | | | | regularly removed, they could pass infections into |
| in your trees and they know how to fix them. | | | | the rest of the tree through their point of |
| More importantly, They know what not to do | | | | contact. In addition, Intersecting branches that rub |
| when pruning trees. Below are a few examples of | | | | together in the wind usually causes one or both |
| the pruning techniques used by Arborists: | | | | branches to die due to a lack of sunlight, irritation |
| - Crown Reduction and Shaping is a very basic | | | | or both. Branches rubbing against other objects |
| technique used on trees that have either grown | | | | and structures may be killed in the same way. |
| too large for their location, or too fast for the | | | | Regular Tree Maintenance helps your trees to |
| main trunk(s) to continue to support the weight | | | | stay healthy and develop strong limbs and |
| of their branches and limbs. This pruning method | | | | branches. |