The TREE Fund will hold an one-hour Tree Adjustments to Wind & Ice Storm Loads webinar on June 2nd from 1 – 2 p.m. (EDT).
Trees grow with, and adjust to, large lateral and vertical loads caused by wind and gravity. Storms with strong winds and ice can push trees beyond their ability to reconfigure or fall back to reduce drag.
Kim Coder from the Warnell School of Forestry at the University of Georgia, will discuss how exceeding tree structural ice and wind load limits causes branch, root, and crown failures, or complete catastrophic loss of the tree. Wind loads greatly increase with small mile-per-hour velocity changes. Storm wind loads and ice storm issues, and how they impact trees, will also be reviewed.
To take part in this webinar, go to www.treefund.org/webinars