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Entries tagged with “Construction”
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Can Your Neighbor’s Construction Damage or Kill Your Trees? Yes.
The legalities surrounding your trees, your neighbors, and construction can get complicated. In this blog, we’ll break it down for you.
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Soil: The Foundation of Healthy Trees
Take care of your soil correctly and in turn, your soil will give to your trees and surrounding landscape.
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Getting to the (tree) root of the problem
Concrete berms built around trees can ultimately be their demise.
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How Mowers, Weed Trimmers and Wire can Kill Your Tree
Tree dangers lurk all around us. Which one could be harming your valuable tree?
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Tree Protection is Critical During Construction
Protecting your tree's roots, bark and limbs during construction jobs no matter how large or small could save your tree. Issues may not arise for years and by then it could be too late.
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Understanding How Your Neighbor’s Construction Could Damage Your Trees
As old homes are torn down, or homeowners add on to home or put in new driveways, you may find yourself, and your trees, a secondary victim to construction damage. Think that fenceline protects you? Think again: Construction in your neighbor’s yard can do permanent damage to your trees.
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Storm Damage: Fallen tree due to construction decades ago!
We were recently called out to a home in Arlington to remove a toppled tree. Before it fell down, if you were to look a the overall appearance of the tree, it may have appeared to be in good health. But here's what we found.
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New Construction? Better Protect Your Trees!
There is nothing more heartbreaking than losing large, established tree. One of the reasons for large tree removals is damage due to surrounding construction.
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If your tree was screaming for help, would you hear it?
We are really tough on our urban trees. Often, they're suffering right before our eyes, but we just don't see the signs.
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What's Wrong with My Oak? Could Be Hypoxylon Canker
We were called out to a construction site recently to diagnose oak trees that looked to be struggling or dying. After our arborist inspected the trees, he diagnosed them with hypoxylon canker.
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Ask an Arborist: Why Should a Leaning Tree Concern You?
ISA Certified Arborist Getth Nelson tackles this question for one of our customers.
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TEXO Construction Association: Working together to protect trees
We work with local construction agencies to protect our urban forest.
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Your neighbor's construction project could be damaging your trees.
Is your neighbor two houses away remodeling their home? It could be harming your trees.
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Root and root flare excavation frees Sycamore from choking mass of construction debris
A berm surrounded a stately Sycamore and we were called upon to free the tree from its encasement of heaped up soil and chunks of concrete and metal so that we could properly expose the surface roots and root flare to the light and air.
