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One of the more frequently administered care practices for mature trees is pruning. Pruning mature trees has a much different emphasis as compared to younger trees. Individual tree branches of younger, established trees put out more incremental annual woody growth per growing shoot and put out larger foliage relative to mature trees. Often younger tree […]
Hurricane Sandy’s effects in Metro West Boston were less than what we anticipated. Clients with tree damage were low in number. Why did Irene cause so much damage last year compared to Sandy this year? Several reasons may explain this. The first is that Irene last year took out severely weakened and compromised limbs […]
Storm Related Tree Damage – Part III
In the previous installments of this 3-part blog we have examined potential causes of storm-related tree failures. In this blog we will discuss the role certified arborists can play in reducing tree damage during storms. There are 3 questions that need to be answered when examining trees […]
Storm Related Tree Damage – Part 2
In this second installment of a three-series blog, we will examine what can make trees susceptible to uprooting or windthrow damage during storms. Uprooting is a term used to describe when trees fall with most of their larger structural roots still attached to the tree. The soil beneath […]
“In the News”
As MetroWest residents and public works crews continue the cleanup after Tropical Storm Irene, local tree removal companies have sprouted a sudden increase in business.
Storm-Related Tree Damage – Part I
We are all aware of role trees play in our everyday lives, primariliy for better but sometimes, in the case of Hurricane Irene, for the worse. When you are stuck without electricity, manuevering through closed roads that
make that commute a nightmere or, worse yet, have had fallen limbs […]
