This is an interesting topic, Rich, and I don't offhand know of recent guidelines to point you to. The only treatment I can think of at the moment is in Miller's Urban Forestry 2nd ed 1997. He points to the utility of zones structured by land use categories (there reduced to just three: "reside...

Thanks, Scott, I feel better now...

I did not do the data collection for this project, and had to clean up a lot of things before I could start. One of the crabapple entries had MA12 which I corrected to MA2 using the Input --> Define Inventory --> Records tool. It is possible that I did that after running the species report the first...

Thanks. I am going to try an installation in a different environment to see if it makes any difference. Mighty strange... EDIT: OK, same old, same old. Previously, I have been using STRATUM on a Windows 2000 platform within a virtual machine on a Linux OS computer, but I get the same results if I us...

Excuse me for asking, Al, but did you test this yourself? If yes, then something weird is going on here that makes no sense to me. Your suggestion makes no difference here (standard installation of STRATUM 3.3 from i-Tree 2.0 CD) whatsoever. Species distribution report still shows "Crabapple ha...

Thanks, I'll give that a try. EDIT: well, when I follow that and highlight MA2, it showed "Apple" in the upper left box for common name--not "Crabapple harvest gold." Then I changed it and clicked Apply, it seemed to stick. When I exit and then re-enter the Define Species dialogu...

I am working on a project in the Northeast climate zone, and have just started to run reports. All crabapples are coded MA2 in the field data. According to the Northeast species list in the Manual, the common name for MA2 should be "Apple" (which already is a problem, IMHO, since the stree...

Oh yeah, sort of forgot about the semi-determinate. My bad. On my young bur oak trees I have seen easily a 50% increase in primary growth this summer, and even more on truly indeterminate species like hackberry or poplar. But I have no idea what that says about older trees, or secondary growth, or r...

I don't know of one, but you can try looking through the results of Googling "indeterminate growth trees."

Glad that helped.

Well, it's going to depend on whether a species shows determinate or indeterminate growth, right? Those with indeterminate growth patterns (e.g., many maples) will keep growing as long as water and nutrients are available, so they will show immediately the effects of this year's unusual moisture lev...

Sounds good, nice work.

You could also post that document in Tips and Tricks if you are so inclined.

Yeah, that was sort of what I thought you were going to say... In his well-known article on Dutch elm disease from the Metria 7 proceedings, Frank Santamour introduced this 10-20-30 rule this way: For maximum protection against the ravages of “new” pests or outbreaks of “old” pests the urban forest ...

Sorry, didn't understand that you were looking for the document instead of the information. This seems like something that would be an important product for anyone wanting to categorize their street tree inventories by family. You are right, which may account for its absence. Besides satisfying curi...

You can get up-to-date family info from the Plants database for native and naturalized trees. And Michael Dirr has that info for every species in his Manual.

I have found it handy to put together a single sheet for clients where all the city data needed for a full STRATUM analysis are listed, along with comments that I hope will help them figure out how to actually get the numbers. Rather than all of us reinventing such an item, I am posting a link to mi...