6. Negligence
• A person is negligent when he or she fails to act
as a reasonable prudent person under the
circumstances.
Duty of Care
• A landowner is not only held to the duty of
common prudence in maintaining trees on his
property, but is also held to an even greater
duty of inspection to discover possible defects of
a tree in order to prevent it from falling and
injuring others. If risk can’t be eliminated, it
should be mitigated so that acceptable level of
risk is achieved.
9. The benefit$ of trees?
• Carbon sequestration
• Oxygen
• Erosion Control
• Aesthetics
• Energy Conservation
• Storm Water Interception
• Pollution Control
• Quality of Life
10. Annual Benefits
• $51 total benefits
• 1,438 gallons of
stormwater
• Conserve 35.2
Kilowatt-hours
• 320 pounds of CO2
