If your tree has a blue dot this means your tree is going to be pruned by Consumer's Energy. If your tree has a blue x this means your tree will be removed by Consumer's Energy.
Send it a tree-mail! After examining trees, Ken marks them with either a red, blue or yellow dot. Red means some pruning work needs carrying out, a blue dot signifies a close eye needs to be kept on the tree and yellow indicates the tree will have to be chopped down.
To save money and to make money, that's why. Purple paint on boundary line trees or fence posts means NO TRESPASSING, just as a green light means go and a red light means stop. In the past, if woodland owners wanted to post their land against trespass, they would almost always nail a sign to a tree.
" Tree Tags are used for many purposes including, but not limited to: identification of trees to cut down, trees to protect, treated trees, species and genus names and memorial trees. Tree tags are used by the Department of Forestry, researchers, tree farmers, national and local parks, landscapers and more."
Pink/Orange Ribbons: these are used to mark resource protected areas, from trees that should not be touched to sensitive historical areas. Researchers use these flags to mark areas for future observations.
If you see a trunk with marks in orange, it indicates that trees has been slated for removal by the Urban Forestry Division (UFD). If a tree has a yellow dot, it doesn't mean the tree is coming down, but it does mean something a bit foreboding. That marks the location for new street tree plantings.
A tree survey is an important survey that is performed on private or public landscapes. The goal of the survey is to provide useful information on the trees so that property managers or homeowners can make informed decisions. – Physical measurements of the tree such as height and diameter.
HOW TO PLAY
- Create and attach labels to 3-5 trees, making them bases.
- Give each player a marker—make sure everyone's color is different.
- The person who's “IT” covers his/her eyes while all the kids scatter.
- The “IT” player tries to tag friends before they make it to one of the tree bases.
WEST COLUMBIA, Texas, 4/29/03 - The Texas Forest Service announced today it has discovered the largest live oak tree in Texas, located about an hour south of Houston on land permanently protected by the Trust for Public Land.
Pink indicates temporary survey markings. When a land surveyor visits to precisely draw the exact lines between adjoining properties, he or she will mark the ground in pink. This indicates the legal boundaries affecting the project. Red is the color for electrical equipment.
The main colors based on the convention are used in the same way as in the US: red for electricity, yellow for gas, and blue for water. However, other colors have other meanings. Orange and other colors are used by local authorities to mark improvements and other details not related to utility locations.
BLUE – Potable Water. GREEN – Sewers and Drain Lines. WHITE – Proposed Excavation Limits or Route. PINK – Temporary Survey Markings, Unknown / Unidentified Facilities. PURPLE – Reclaimed Water, Irrigation, and Slurry Lines.
Pink is strictly used by land surveying companies to state where the temporary survey markings are. The color codes for locating utilities, conduit or rebar in concrete can present slightly different colors depending on the surface. Most often used are the colors red, yellow, blue and black.
Orange Flags
When you see an orange flag, it is marking communications, alarm or signal lines and cables or conduit, aka the system controlling your home's telephone and television access. These are also likely connected to your neighborhood's communication lines, so dig with caution.Red: Electric power lines, cables, conduit and lighting cables. Orange: Telecommunication, alarm or signal lines, cables or conduit. Yellow: Natural gas, oil, steam, petroleum or other gaseous or flammable material. Green: Sewers and drain lines. Blue: Drinking water.
Standard Color Codes
- Red = Electric.
- Yellow = Gas/Oil/Steam.
- Orange = Communications/CATV.
- Blue = Water.
- Green = Sewer.
- Pink = Survey Markings.
- White = Proposed Excavation.
Pavement markings are used to convey messages to roadway users. They indicate which part of the road to use, provide information about conditions ahead, and indicate where passing is allowed. Yellow lines separate traffic flowing in opposite directions. A solid yellow line indicates that passing is prohibited.
Utilities will mark their buried lines on your dig site. Most locate crews will arrive to mark your dig site with paint or flags within a few days and will make sure you know where to avoid digging so you don't hit buried utilites.
White means the tree has been marked for removal. The cause of the removal in this instance varies. The tree could be dead, it could be infested with Emerald Ash Borer, it could be hazardous, or it may just be in general decline with no possibility of recovery.
Painting tree trunks white is a time honored method of young tree protection often found in orchards and tree farms. There are several purposes but chief among them is to prevent cracking and splitting of the tender new bark, which can allow introduction of disease, insects and fungus.
