Just some arborists who want to better understand how trees fail so we can preserve trees more effectively and prevent unnecessary damage, injury and death.
The Pacific Northwest Tree Failure Database was started in 2017 with the goal of creating a central location for the reporting of tree failures in the Pacific Northwest.
We worked with the California Tree Failure Report Program early on to select appropriate data fields which would reflect conditions which may have contributed to a failure.
The long term goal is to use these reports to build species profiles for the region. We hope that our work will contribute to a deeper and more precise understanding of how and why trees fail.
Your support and contributions will enable us to continue collecting data and generating reports for our mutual benefit.