A professional tree inventory and management plan is the most efficient and cost-effective way to care for your trees and keep your community attractive and safe. It can help you avoid expensive emergency tree services, reduce risk to people and property, and build a data-based care plan tailored to your priorities and budget.
A professional tree inventory is a detailed report prepared by a board certified master arborist that lists and describes all the trees and their locations within the specified areas on your property. The assessment of an individual tree consists of a 360-degree, ground-based visual inspection of the tree’s crown, trunk, and above-ground roots. The inventory captures a range of useful data for each tree, including its location, species, age, condition, defects, recommended action, and a priority rating for each recommendation – e.g., “high,” “medium,” or “low” priority of action, or “no action needed at this time.”
The many benefits of a tree inventory
The scope of a tree inventory should be tailored to your specific concerns and goals. The focus can be strictly on risk assessment – identifying dead or failing trees that pose a potential risk to people and property — or can more broadly address the health conditions, suggested interventions, and recommended maintenance of your tree canopy. Here are some of the advantages of having an inventory done…
Safety. An expertly-prepared tree inventory will warn you of the potential for tree failure due to pests or disease.
Data-based decision-making. A tree inventory helps you make clear-eyed spending decisions based on the specific conditions of your trees – i.e., which dead or decayed trees should be removed immediately, which trees with disease or pest problems can be treated to save or extend their life, which healthy trees can be treated to prevent problems.
Budgeting. The risk ratings and other useful data points on the inventory help you and its tree care professional establish a scope and timetable for the tree work based on the priority ratings of the recommendations, the estimated costs, and the association’s budget.
Bidding and completing the work. The detailed inventory report – in its print and web-accessed (mobile-friendly) formats — becomes a concrete working plan for you to use to solicit cost proposals, and for the tree-care professionals you hire to perform the work.
Guidance on new plantings. Because the inventory report provides a breakdown by tree species — and highlights any over-represented species — it serves as a guide for new plantings to ensure species diversity that will protect your landscape from devastation from a single pest or disease.
Take the First Step
Arrange to meet with a us to discuss your goals for a tree inventory. Once you have a tree inventory in hand, you can work with your tree care professional to devise a comprehensive, reasonable, and multi-phased management plan that will help you keep your community’s landscape in the best possible shape for current and future homeowners. Call today to schedule, 318.455.4758.
