Wildlife trees (standing deadwood)

• Document No.

• Audit Title

• Client / Site

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

• Personnel

• Tree number

• Tree species

• Photo of standing deadwood

  Media

• DBH (diameter at breast height)

• Height

• Lean

• Date tree died (estimate)

• Top of stem

  Straight cut

  Natural fracture

  Other

• Describe likely target if failure occurs

• Target High or Low

  High

  Low

• Can the target be moved?

• Bat habitat

• Bird habitat

• Portion of stem on the ground?

• Failure natural or man enduced

  Natural

  Man made

• Standing deadwood decay stage (Hunter, 1990)

• Percentage bark on tree (sloughing)

• Bark texture

  Intact

  Trace

  Absent

• Trunk condition

  Intact

  Intact to partly soft

  Hard, large peices

  small, soft, blocky peices

  Soft and powdery

• Trunk fungal species

• Root fungal species

• Total number of fungal species present

• Sapwood deterioration (Cline et al. 1980)

• Propensity to fail due to decay (Lonsdale, 2007)

Roots

• Signs of movement or gaps around base of tree

• Notes on soil condition, water logging etc

• Tree works

  Reduce height

  Fell to ground

  Other

  No work required

• Works to be completed by (timeframe)

Additional information

• Notes

• Add signature

  Sign

Monitoring

• Frequency of monitoring visits