RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Assessing the Hazard of Emerald Ash Borer and Other Exotic Stressors to Community Forests
JF Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
FD International Society of Arboriculture
SP 350
OP 359
DO 10.48044/jauf.2007.040
VO 33
IS 5
A1 John Ball
A1 Sarah Mason
A1 Aaron Kiesz
A1 Dan McCormick
A1 Craig Brown
YR 2007
UL http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/33/5/350.abstract
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.