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Shrubs and Woody Vines of Indiana and the Midwest: Identification, Wildlife Values, and Landscaping Use (Paperback)
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Shrubs and Woody Vines of Indiana and the Midwest: Identification, Wildlife Values, and Landscaping Use (Paperback)

As the definitive identification guide to the shrubs and woody vines of Indiana, this book also provides coverage of 90% of the species to be found in surrounding Midwestern US states. As well as covering indigenous spec...

Native Trees of the Midwest
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Native Trees of the Midwest

A great companion reference book to the Shrubs of Indiana CD, the book Native Trees of the Midwest is a definitive guide to identifying trees in Indiana and surrounding states. Descri...

Shrubs of Indiana / Native Trees of the Midwest - Combo Package
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Shrubs of Indiana / Native Trees of the Midwest - Combo Package

This combo includes a book and CD.

Indiana is home to more than 100 species of shrubs that are native to the state and the Midwest. This publication was inspired by the work of pioneer botanist Charles Deam.

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Scale Insects on Shade Trees and Shrubs
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Scale Insects on Shade Trees and Shrubs

This publication describes the general life cycle of scale insects and control measures for them. It includes a table of the most common scale insects in Indiana with the plants they most seriously affect. ...

Crabapples Resistant to Apple Scab and Japanese Beetle in Indiana
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Crabapples Resistant to Apple Scab and Japanese Beetle in Indiana

Apple scab and Japanese beetle have given crabapples a reputation of being prone to insect and disease problems. In this bulletin we place crabapple cultivars into one of 3 classes of resistance/susceptibility to each of...

Quail Habitat: Putting the Numbers in Perspective
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Quail Habitat: Putting the Numbers in Perspective

As wildlife biologists, we often help people manage habitat for quail on their property. Every property is different, but areas with good quail numbers have one thing in common: quail-friendly habitat structure. The p...

Trees Need a Proper Start: Prune Them Right
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Trees Need a Proper Start: Prune Them Right

Learn how to prune a tree the right way. This publication helps you understand tree biology, important terms, and ways to prune a tree....

What's Wrong with Topping Trees?
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What's Wrong with Topping Trees?

Why topping can be hazardous to people and property, and better alternatives for tree owners. ...

Why Is My Tree Dying?
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Why Is My Tree Dying?

This publication explains how trees can be injured and die from damage suffered during construction projects.

Urban Forestry, Department of Forestry & Natural Resources

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Graffiti Removal From Trees
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Graffiti Removal From Trees

This publication explains how paint and other graffiti materials can damage trees, and offers tips on how to safely remove them from bark and interior tree layers.

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Tree Risk Management
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Tree Risk Management

This publication outlines the steps for assessing and inspecting trees, in order to reduce the risk of unhealthy trees falling and damaging property. Topics covered include documenting and maintaining records, inspection...

Trees and Storms
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Trees and Storms

Trees are lost or seriously damaged every year from high winds, snow, ice and other storm-related weather. This publication explains common tree injuries and how to identify them, risk assessment when trees are damaged a...

Drought? Don't forget the trees!
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Drought? Don't forget the trees!

Water is the most limiting ecological resource for a tree, and without adequate moisture, decline and death are imminent. Drought can have a major impact on tree health and survival. This 5-page PDF publication describ...

Indiana's Urban Woodlots
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Indiana's Urban Woodlots

Woodlots are dynamic, vital ecosystems in the urban and suburban landscapes of the Midwest. People own these small wooded lots in urbanized areas for a variety of reasons: timber production, firewood production, recreati...

Mechanical Damage to Trees: Mowing and Maintenance Equipment
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Mechanical Damage to Trees: Mowing and Maintenance Equipment

One of the most dangerous pests of trees is humans, especially humans with equipment. Lawn mowers and weed trimmers can cause injuries that create a hazard when an injury leads to tree disease or death. This publication ...

Instalacion de arboles: Proceso y practicas
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Instalacion de arboles: Proceso y practicas

This is a Spanish-language version of our helpful, how-to guide Tree Installation: Process and Practices, which helps in choosing, planting, and maintaining trees. It includes a 12-step planting process, Indiana ...

Lumber from Urban and Construction-Site Trees
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Lumber from Urban and Construction-Site Trees

For many different reasons, more and more people in larger cities want to reuse urban trees scheduled for removal. People who are part of the "green movement" want to turn urban trees into something more valuable than fi...

Tree Pruning Essentials
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Tree Pruning Essentials

Pruning has been called "one of the best, worst maintenance practices" performed on trees. The process creates wounds, which have a major impact on plant processes. Improper cutting on a tree causes severe damage or even...

Trees and Electric Lines
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Trees and Electric Lines

Electrical utility lines serve nearly every neighborhood, adding efficiency and luxury to every day of our lives. Likewise, trees enhance our neighborhoods and bring beauty to our surroundings. Trees improve our air and ...

Lo esencial para la poda de árboles
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Lo esencial para la poda de árboles

Se ha llamado a la poda "una de las mejores peores prácticas de mantenimiento" que se puede realizar en los árboles. Este proceso crea heridas que tienen un impacto importante en los procesos de la planta. U...

Tree Installation: Process and Practices
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Tree Installation: Process and Practices

Choosing and planting a tree should be a well-informed and planned decision. Proper selection and planting of urban trees can provide years of enjoyment for you and future generations as well as increased property val...

Tree Selection for the
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Tree Selection for the "Un-natural" Environment

It's a tough neighborhood for trees in the built environment. It is an ecosystem unlike any other, because it is dynamic, fragmented, high-pressure, and constantly under siege. There are continual extremes and challenges...

Tree Planting Part 1: Choosing a Tree
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Tree Planting Part 1: Choosing a Tree

Choosing and planting a tree should be a well-informed and planned decision. Proper selection and planting of urban trees can provide years of enjoyment for you and future generations as well as increased property value,...

Tree Planting Part 2: Planting Your Tree
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Tree Planting Part 2: Planting Your Tree

Trees and all forestlands are major assets to our cities, towns, and communities. Urban trees, in particular, provide aesthetic, functional, and environmental benefits to improve the quality of life. A well-planted an...

Tree Pruning Essentials
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Tree Pruning Essentials

Pruning has been called "one of the best, worst maintenance practices," especially when performed on urban trees. The process creates wounds, which have a major impact on plant processes. Improper cutting on a tree cause...

Tree Pruning: What Do Trees Think?
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Tree Pruning: What Do Trees Think?

This 6-page publication explains the physiological and physical changes that happen within trees as a response to pruning. Guiding young and medium-aged trees to develop good branch architecture is key to sustainable ...

Tree Support Systems
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Tree Support Systems

Tree Support Systems answers common questions about post-planting tree care. It describes when to stake trees, how to stake and guy trees, and proper methods of trunk protection.

Trees establish themselves qui...

Large Tree Cabling and Bracing
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Large Tree Cabling and Bracing

Trees can grow in ways that are not always the safest or most sustainable for long-term health and safety. This can happen for many reasons: species characteristics, growing location, or lack of proper pruning in earl...

Corrective Pruning for Deciduous Trees
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Corrective Pruning for Deciduous Trees

How do I remedy poor branching? Is my tree at risk of splitting, and how can pruning prevent that? Corrective pruning has many implications for tree structure, health, and longevity. Developing a strong, central branc...

Tree Appraisal and the Value of Trees
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Tree Appraisal and the Value of Trees

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 pollu...

Surface Root Syndrome
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Surface Root Syndrome

Trees in the landscape are highly prized and provide many benefits to you and your home. However, those shallow roots that appear on the surface of our lawns can create real headaches, especially when trying to grow l...

Tree Defect Identification
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Tree Defect Identification

Well-maintained trees provide many benefits including increased property values, improved air quality and curb appeal. Trees are living organisms making them vulnerable to pests and environmental extremes resulting in he...

Invasive Plant Series - Tree of Heaven, Ailanthus altissima
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Invasive Plant Series - Tree of Heaven, Ailanthus altissima

Tree-of-heaven is a serious threat as an invasive species in many habitats or untended areas. It can reach 80 feet or more, its growth rate outpaces most native tree species, and wind scatters seeds that female trees pro...

Preparing Indiana's Urban Forest for Climate Change
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Preparing Indiana's Urban Forest for Climate Change

Choosing species of trees that will thrive in urban settings has always required careful consideration, but climate change is making that task even more important. In this paper, Purdue and other researchers provide tool...

Verticillium Wilt of Shade Trees
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Verticillium Wilt of Shade Trees

This publication describes the symptoms and cause of Verticillium wilt disease, how it is diagnosed and management options. ...

Diseases of Landscape Plants: Cedar Apple and Related Rusts on Landscape Plants
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Diseases of Landscape Plants: Cedar Apple and Related Rusts on Landscape Plants

The cedar rust diseases stand out because of their conspicuous orange gelatinous horns that develop from gray to brown colored fungal galls on the branches of infected junipers. These horns produce spores that can infect...

Diseases of Landscape Plants: Leaf Diseases
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Diseases of Landscape Plants: Leaf Diseases

Leaf diseases — or, "foliar" diseases — occur on most species of landscape trees and shrubs. This publication explains the typical symptoms, causes, management, and life cycles of common foliar diseases....

Iron Chlorosis of Trees and Shrubs
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Iron Chlorosis of Trees and Shrubs

Many trees, shrubs, and other ornamental plantings in Indiana suffer from iron deficiency induced by high (alkaline) soil pH. A primary symptom resulting from iron deficiency is leaf yellowing, also known as chlorosis. P...

Root Rot in Landscape Plants
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Root Rot in Landscape Plants

Root problems in plants are frequently under- and misdiagnosed. Sometimes it's too late to save the plant. This publication, part of the Plant Pathology in the Landscape series, discusses predisposing factors, diagnosis,...

Symptoms and Signs for Plant Problem Diagnosis - An Illustrated Glossary
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Symptoms and Signs for Plant Problem Diagnosis - An Illustrated Glossary

Pests, pathogens and abiotic disorders cause a variety of problems in plants but how do you describe them? This full-color, illustrated guide will help users learn the language of plant problem diagnosis by defining the ...

Apple Scab of Flowering Crabapples
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Apple Scab of Flowering Crabapples

Flowering crabapples are susceptible to several diseases that result in yellow leaves and defoliation by early summer. Apple scab is one such disease. ...

Urban Wood and Traditional Wood: A Comparison of Properties and Uses
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Urban Wood and Traditional Wood: A Comparison of Properties and Uses

Trees are cultivated in public and private landscapes in and around cities and towns. They are grown for the tremendous contributions they make both to the environment and the quality of people's lives. In this urban for...

Growth Retardant: A Promising Tool for Managing Urban Trees
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Growth Retardant: A Promising Tool for Managing Urban Trees

This publication discusses in detail the use of growth retardants on urban trees and shrubs that often grow too large for the available space in urban areas. ...

Wildlife Habitat Education Program - Teaching and Learning Wildlife Management Practices
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Wildlife Habitat Education Program - Teaching and Learning Wildlife Management Practices

The Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP) helps students understand wildlife ecology and management practices. In addition, students gain skills in teamwork, oral and written communication, decision-making, and leade...

Does Night Lighting Harm Trees?
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Does Night Lighting Harm Trees?

Night lighting has been identified as a potential for causing harm to certain trees. This publication provides information on light pollution and the electromagnetic spectrum. It also describes the effects of night light...

Construction and Trees: Guidelines for Protection
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Construction and Trees: Guidelines for Protection

This publication provides information on protecting trees within or near construction sites and home building projects from damage or death.

Urban Forestry, Department of Forestry & Natural Resources

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