Not too long ago we gave a consultation to a gentleman whose backyard was almost entirely surrounded by tall trees: a row of maples leaning over from his neighbor’s yard, a large bushy pine, and a 60-foot sequoia that he had planted 25 years ago. Overhead, the canopies of all these trees formed a nearly-complete dome

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Our customers in Medford may already be familiar with our 65-foot bucket lift. But now, our Portland crew is also equipped with a new, 75-foot lift! It’s perfect for all those hard-to-reach places, such as a hazardous dead poplar tree — which as we mentioned in our previous post on Problem Poplars, are generally unsafe

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This season has been a winter catastrophe throughout the U.S., with the polar vortex bringing freezing temperatures all the way down to Florida and Mexico, covering the entire nation in ice and — What’s that? It’s a toasty 50 degrees outside? Why, you must be living in sunny Oregon! (And for once, that phrase is

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Recently we’ve had several cases where clients called us to have a worrisome tree hazards and when our arborist arrived to give an estimate, we’d discover that the tree had been dead for a very long time. The most recent case was a birch tree tucked away in a back yard, surrounded by garden structures

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For today’s topic we’ll be discussing one of the most maligned tree families in the urban environment, the poplars. They are a consistent nuisance to homeowners and arbor care professionals alike: Poplars The poplar family (consisting of cottonwoods, aspens, Lombardy poplars, etc.) grows in tall, vertical columns, with steep and often weak branch unions and

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