Image Credits and Licensing
Our featured contractor's own job photos
The photographs whose file names start with featured-(featured-aerial-lift, featured-lift-pruning, featured-storm-uprooted, featured-cutting-rounds and featured-hillside-clearing) are provided by our featured contractor and show their own crews at work. They are used with the contractor's permission as part of the featured contractor arrangement, resized for the web, with company lettering on clothing and an equipment dealer's sticker blurred out. They are not tied to a specific address, and we do not claim they were taken in Fremont.
Photographs used on this site
The table lists every other image file in this site's public image directory, the original work it comes from, the creator, the licence and where it was obtained. Files served in more than one size, such as the hero, share a single entry because they are derived from one original.
| File | Original work | Creator | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hero.webp | Kevin-Bingham | TreeMinion15 | CC BY-SA | Openverse |
| tree-removal.webp | Tree Removal by Crane (panoramio) | via panoramio | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| crane-removal.webp | Almfallning i Kungstradgarden 2025 19 | Frankie Fouganthin | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| tree-trimming.webp | Arboriculture Baumschuetzer Tree Climber Austria | Zeitblick | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| stump-grinding.webp | Stump grinder, Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey (2023) | Famartin | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| emergency.webp | Tree Craned Off House, Cedar Rapids IA (2020) | Lyle Muller | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| oak-care.webp | Coast Live Oak in Devendorf Park, Carmel, CA (July 2023) | Marty Aligata | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| sudden-oak-death.webp | Dead Coast Live Oak in Marin | USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region 5 (photo by Steve Swain) | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| palm.webp | Washingtonia robusta, Las Flores, Todos Santos, Baja California Sur (2022) | stekkelpak | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| chipper.webp | FEMA 40076 - City worker puts a branch in a wood chipper in Kentucky | FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
| fremont-hills.webp | Oak Tree And Hills, Fremont California (2013) | Hugh Nelson | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| fremont-central-park-lake.webp | Lake Elizabeth in Fremont Central Park, with Mission Peak behind (April 2011) | King of Hearts | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons via Openverse |
| niles-tree-by-bridge.webp | A tree by the bridge in Niles, Fremont, California | Mercurywoodrose | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons via Openverse |
| bay-laurel-las-trampas.webp | A California bay laurel on the west ridge of Las Trampas Regional Wilderness in the East Bay hills | Dcrjsr | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons via Openverse |
| bay-laurel-leaves.webp | California bay laurel (Umbellularia californica) leaves and flowers on Old Briones Road in the East Bay hills | John Rusk from Berkeley, CA, United States of America | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons via Openverse |
Source: Wikimedia Commons and Openverse, licence terms as stated by each creator
What the photographs show
Apart from the featured contractor's photographs above, these are illustrative photographs of tree work, species and conditions relevant to the topic on each page, not photographs of local jobs. We say so plainly rather than implying otherwise. Where an image shows a species that also grows in Fremont, such as the coast live oak on the oak care pages, it was chosen for that reason.
A few are deliberately not local. The stump grinder image is from New Jersey, the palm is from Baja California Sur, the crane removal photograph is from Kungstradgarden park in Stockholm, and the tree trimming photograph is from Austria. Those were the best openly licensed photographs available showing the equipment and the species clearly. Where an image is genuinely of this area, such as the Fremont hills, Lake Elizabeth and Niles photographs, the source record says so.
Diagrams
The labeled diagrams (files starting with diagram-) are drawn for this site and are not to scale. The permit thresholds and the 4.5 foot measuring height come from Fremont's tree ordinance as quoted on our permit pages; the protection zone radius of 15 times the trunk diameter and the stump depths from the same pages; pruning cuts from ANSI A300 and ISA practice; defensible space zones from California Public Resources Code 4291 and CAL FIRE; the 811 notice from California Government Code 4216.2; and the Sudden Oak Death cycle from UC IPM and the California Oak Mortality Task Force.
The licences in plain terms
Public domain and CC0 place no restriction on use. CC BY requires attribution to the creator. CC BY-SA requires attribution and requires derivative works to be shared under the same licence. The version numbers, such as 3.0 and 4.0, refer to successive revisions of the Creative Commons licence suite, and the differences between them do not change the attribution obligation.
If you are the creator of any image listed here and something in the attribution is wrong, or you would like the image removed, get in touch through the contact form and it will be corrected or taken down.