Root growth control: managing perceptions and realities

"Many infrastructures that concentrate and transport required resources for people are poorly designed and not built to withstand natural processes over time. These engineering flaws are exacerbated by opportunistic tree roots colonizing new resource spaces. To infrastructure managers, blame for failures are delegated elsewhere--in the case considered here, to trees. Tree professionals have been prone to accept this blame and to damage trees to fit them into faulty design, engineering, and maintenance concepts. Predicated upon these areas of concern, professional management of tree root growth is becoming more important. In this context, this paper will review root growth and soil mechanics to clearly identify root-limiting conditions. Additionally, a series of root growth control methods, divided among a number of tool and technique classes, will be presented. Tree literate management is stressed." [Abstract]

 

[San Francisco, Mar. 5-6, 1998]

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