Virginia Cooperative ExtensionAppelton, Bonnie Lee, 1948-2012Dave Close2021-10-212021-10-212021-03-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/105487Few residential trees die of 'old age.' Mechanical damage and improper tree care kill more trees than any insects or diseases. Avoid making the tree-damaging mistakes shown in the diagram below. Few of these items alone would kill a tree, but multiple problems will certainly stress, and could eventually kill, a tree.2 pagesapplication/pdfenVirginia Cooperative Extension materials are available for public use, re-print, or citation without further permission, provided the use includes credit to the author and to Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, and Virginia State University.TreesExtension publicationhttps://resources.ext.vt.edu/contentdetail?contentid=2670&contentname=24%20Ways%20to%20Kill%20a%20TreeTreesDamageTree declinedeath