Signs

A dying tree rarely announces itself politely. In Minneapolis, where freeze-thaw cycles, EAB, and heavy snow all gang up on the canopy, the warning signs can be subtle until a limb is suddenly through your roof. Homeowners in Valley View and Penn American often tell us they wish they had called a year earlier. The [...]

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Minnesota’s tree canopy is gorgeous nine months a year and quietly dangerous the other three. Homeowners in East Bloomington and along the Minnesota River bluffs know the pattern: a July derecho shears off limbs, a December ice storm coats everything in a half inch of glaze, and meanwhile the emerald ash borer keeps killing ash [...]

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Every spring, Minneapolis hardware stores sell out of chainsaws as homeowners in neighborhoods like Nine Mile Village and Valley View decide this is the year they finally drop that dead ash themselves. Sometimes that is the right call. Often it ends with a cracked garage roof, a tangle with an Xcel line, or a trip [...]

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Watching a 60-foot cottonwood come down in a packed Minneapolis backyard looks like controlled chaos, but a good crew runs a precise, repeatable sequence. Homeowners in older neighborhoods like Penn American and Southwood Acres, where 1950s lots leave little room between the house and the lot line, often worry the tree will land on the [...]

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If you own a home anywhere from West Bloomington to the boulevards of South Minneapolis, you have probably watched the emerald ash borer chew through the metro’s ash canopy and wondered what it will cost to take a dying tree down before it falls on your garage during the next January ice load. Minneapolis once [...]

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