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Entries tagged with “Environment”
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Tree Planting on a Grand Scale
Some of our tree planting jobs call for heavy equipment, road closures and cranes.
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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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Summer Watering & Care for New Trees
Newly planted trees and shrubs need extra attention and TLC for the first year in their new environment. Following a few key steps will help to settle them in for the long haul.
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Want to save your roof? Take care of your trees!
As we drive around the city, we see so many trees that either have never been pruned, or have been pruned by someone who didn’t know what they were doing. Considering the extreme weather we experienced here in DFW, caring for your trees and having them pruned by an expert should be pretty close to the top of your home maintenance list.
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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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How Drought Now Will Hurt Your Trees For Years to Come
Drought stress has a big impact on our urban trees. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that our trees are going to get a break from drought any time soon. How is it affecting our trees? We explain.
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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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Black Ooze...What’s Wrong With My Tree?
When trees have a bacterial infection, you’ll often see the tree go into a state of overall decline combined with open, oozing wounds.
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How Do Trees Affect Your Urban Air Quality?
Clean air is a pretty big reason to care about, and care for, our valuable urban trees. We don’t do a very good job at cleaning pollution out of our urban air. It’s lucky for us the trees are pretty good at it. How exactly do trees help keep your air clean?
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Crane Training Takes Safety Lessons to New Heights
Certified Arborist and Registered Consulting Arborist Micah Pace reports on a recent skills and safety training workshop involving trees and cranes.
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Preservation Tree Proves Instrumental in Planting Project at TI
Corporations, like Texas Instruments, value their trees and are quick to respond when a tree needs replacing.
