Trees provide significant benefits to our Tri-Cities area, but when trees fall and injure people or damage property, they are issues to address. Understanding and addressing the risks associated with trees makes your property safer and prolongs the life of the tree.

Our team can help you manage and maintain trees on your property and can provide treatments that may help reduce the risk associated with certain trees. We can assess any tree risk and may suggest one or more of the following:

• Remove the tree. While a home or a nearby power line cannot be moved, it is possible to move picnic tables, cars, landscape features, or other possible targets to prevent them from being hit by a falling tree.
• Prune the nuisance tree. Remove the affected branches of the tree. Because inappropriate pruning may weaken a tree, pruning work is best done by one of our ISA Certified Arborist.
• Brace and cable the tree. Provide support for weak branches and stems to increase their strength and stability. Such supports are not guarantees against failure.
• Provide routine maintenance and care. Older trees need routine care in the form of water, nutrients (in some cases), mulch, and pruning as dictated by the season and their structure.
• Remove the tree. Some trees with unacceptable levels of risk are best removed. If possible, plant a new tree in an appropriate place as a replacement.

We have a team with some of the only arborists in the Tri-Cities.  Keep in mind that having trees on your property comes with a little bit of maintenance. With just a little maintenance, you can prevent most major pitfalls. You won’t have to be worried about trees causing property damage or even worse, personal injury. We look forward to discussing your tree maintenance needs. We have trained arborists in the Tri-Cities  that are professional and that can answer any questions you have.

Even though we are in a high plateau area of Washington State, and the Tri-Cities is considered a desert, we have many species of trees here. Trees provide numerous benefits to us living and working in the the Tri-Cities area, which increase with tree size and age. However, mature and bigger trees are also more likely to lose branches or cause root conflicts on the sites they inhabit. In managing these trees, tree owners must recognize the tree benefits and risks.

Whether hazards are created by our strong Tri-Cities wind, or ice-storms, or whether construction on the site may or already has negatively affected the tree, tree owners should recognize tree risk and management strategies to help ensure trees are able to provide their full complement of benefits.

We can answer any questions you have. We can help you find out more about recognizing tree risk, safely responding to tree-related storm damage, avoiding damaging trees during construction, and treating trees injured during construction.

Keep in mind that having trees on your property comes with a little bit of maintenance. With just a little maintenance, you can prevent most major pitfalls. You won’t have to be worried about trees causing property damage or even worse, personal injury. We look forward to discussing your tree maintenance needs. We have trained arborists in the Tri-Cities that are professional and that can answer any questions you have.

The Tri-Cities area has some pretty fair weather. We have some wind to deal with, a little bit of rain, and rarely some lightning. Every now and then lightning will strike trees in yards, but what happens next?

When lightning strikes a tree, it instantly steams the water inside the tree, busts the bark out fromt the trunk and branches, and will even split the tree open in some cases. If this happens, the tree should most likely be removed. In some cases, when lightning hits, it will actually bend the tree and when it rebounds, the bark will be damaged.

Another unknown issue with lightning strikes is that the lightning will actually disrupt the tree’s water flow. After a strike, you may see leaves wilting. Sometimes the decline of a branch is a gradual process that takes up to three years. In these cases, leaves wilt over time without new foliage to replace them, while pests often infest the weakened branches.

Sometimes lightning destroys tree roots with no obvious symptoms of lightning damage above ground. This causes leaf wilt, which often kills the tree in just a few days. However, some trees recover from root damage as long as they’re able to produce new leaves in the spring. Providing water and fertilizer can help increase a damaged tree’s stress tolerance, helping it survive until the next growing period.

Keep in mind that having trees on your property comes with a little bit of maintenance. With just a little maintenance, you can prevent most major pitfalls. You won’t have to be worried about trees causing property damage or even worse, personal injury. We look forward to discussing your tree maintenance needs. We have trained arborists in the Tri-Cities  that are professional and that can answer any questions you have.