Trees For Your Home: A Reference Guide To Growing Healthy Trees
While trees provide aesthetic and economic benefits for your home, they require a certain amount of care to remain beautiful and healthy. Trees For Your Home is a reference for anyone with a question or interest in planting and maintaining trees. Whether you’re doing the work yourself or planning to hire a professional, this booklet gives answers to many questions on caring for your trees. You’ll also find references to other resources for more in-depth information, such as AUFA’s website, authoritative books, and articles.

Trees help make a house a home – we’d like to help you enjoy the experience of growing and keeping your trees healthy.This easy-to-use guide can be downloaded for free (click here) or can be ordered at the address at the bottom of this page for a hard copy (please include $2 for shipping costs.)

Making Trees Work For Your Community
Order: AUFA's acclaimed video, Making Trees Work For Your Community

Making Our Urban Forests Safer tells what your community can do to stormproof its trees.

Parking Lot Research (From the Center for Urban Forest Research, Davis, CA):
On a hot summer day, would you rather sit down in a nice shady spot or broil unprotected in the blazing sun? Your car feels the same way. And you know how uncomfortable it is to climb back into the driver's seat after it's been baking in the heat. So - Where are all the cool parking lots??

Find out how to do parking lots right. Our publication will describe:
* how to increase effectiveness of shade
* proper planning techniques
* proper site design
* 3 keys to success
* what to do after installation
* how to strengthen ordinances

See our Research Summary.

All about Urban Forestry: Info Sheets
Download here to get this informative 8-page handout.

Alabama Cooperative Extension System (downloads)

     Making Our Urban Forests Safer
     
     Planning and Implementing an Urban Forestry Program
     
     Street Trees: Site Selection, Planting & Maintenance

    Homeowners: How to inspect your trees for safety

You can also Order a printed copy, or Visit your County Agent's office.

Getting New Trees Started Right
Download: text of PowerPoint presentation, Getting New Trees Started Right