{"id":13287,"date":"2020-03-03T15:28:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2025-02-15T02:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T06:41:09","slug":"revised-publication-tree-appraisal-and-the-value-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/revised-publication-tree-appraisal-and-the-value-of-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated &#8211; Tree Appraisal and the Value of Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tree-Appraisal.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13303 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tree-Appraisal-500x449.png\" alt=\"Tree\" width=\"500\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tree-Appraisal-500x449.png 500w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tree-Appraisal-250x225.png 250w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Tree-Appraisal.png 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Trees provide many benefits and value to property owners in functional, aesthetic, social, environmental, and even economic ways. Functional benefits include mitigating climate change by storing carbon, removing pollution from the atmosphere, managing stormwater runoff, and improving air quality. Trees provide oxygen and many other benefits &#8211; such as shade, which can impact home cooling costs.<\/p>\n<p>The collective value of trees makes a difference in people&#8217;s health and quality of life in cities and towns everywhere. This updated Purdue Extension publication <a href=\"https:\/\/mdc.itap.purdue.edu\/item.asp?Item_Number=FNR-473-W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tree Appraisal and the Value of Trees<\/a>\u00a0describes methods used to appraise trees and landscapes that can determine their value and worth, reasons why a tree should be appraised, the factors that go into tree appraisal, what appraisal ratings mean, and sample scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-575-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Nature of Teaching: Trees of the Midwest<\/a>, The Education Store, Purdue Education Resource Center<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-563-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corrective Pruning for Deciduous Trees<\/a>, The Education Store<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-226-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Resources and Assistance Available for Planting Hardwood Seedlings<\/a>, The Education Store<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edustore.purdue.edu\/fnr-547-w.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tree Support Systems<\/a>, The Education Store<\/p>\n<p>Purdue University, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trees provide many benefits and value to property owners in functional, aesthetic, social, environmental, and even economic ways. Functional benefits include mitigating climate change by storing carbon, removing pollution from the atmosphere, managing stormwater runoff, and improving air quality. Trees provide oxygen and many other benefits &#8211; such as shade, which can impact home cooling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,80,859,49,860,53],"tags":[256,943,262],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forestry","category-trees","category-nature-of-teaching","category-plants","category-publication","category-urbanforestry","tag-fnr","tag-fnr-extension","tag-tree"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31974,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions\/31974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}