Estimating Costs of Tree Preservation on Residential Lots

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Table 1.

Costs incurred by Athens, Georgia, builders for various tree removal and preservation practices.

Practice	Number of cases	A verage cost	Lowest cost	Highest cost
Clearing all or part of lot	5	$255	$150	$375
Selective thinning of all or part of lot	44	284	50	1250
Preserving all possible trees on lot	27	39	0	350
No policy (few trees originally on lot)	30	17	0	250