PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - John Ball
AU  - Sarah Mason
AU  - Aaron Kiesz
AU  - Dan McCormick
AU  - Craig Brown
TI  - Assessing the Hazard of Emerald Ash Borer and Other Exotic Stressors to Community Forests
AID  - 10.48044/jauf.2007.040
DP  - 2007 Sep 01
TA  - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
PG  - 350--359
VI  - 33
IP  - 5
4099  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/33/5/350.short
4100  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/33/5/350.full
AB  - Exotic stressors such as emerald ash borer are an increasing concern to many communities across North America. One means of assessing the hazard these stressors may represent to a community’s publicly managed trees is through an inventory of their street trees. The South Dakota Division of Resource Conservation and Forestry conducted street tree inventories in selected communities across the state and, from these data, have placed communities into stability categories based on the percentage of full stocking that each genera represents within the street tree population. The majority of surveyed communities are in the low stability category as a result of the dominance of green ash in their street tree populations.