Trees, in an important sense, should be treated like people. They grow, thrive, feed, and have long lives. Trees have healthcare needs of their own. These needs include protection from disease and surgery, when necessary, to maintain the life and health of the tree. In a forest, these needs are more or less taken care of by nature. In the city or the suburbs, however, trees are not subjected to the ordinary natural mechanisms that control such factors as excessive branch growth.
Young trees growing up in these environments tend to grow multiple stems and leaders as a result of their exposure to much more sunlight than is available in a forest. These excessive growths are subject to failure later in the tree’s life. As a result, human intervention is required to do what nature would otherwise have taken care of as trees shed branches competing with each other for sunlight in a forest environment.
Professional tree cutting services in Queens County NY tackle this problem in a number of ways. Pruning is the most common action taken by arborists to maintain the health of the tree through its long lifetime. Dead and dying branches are surgically removed, and the stumps are treated in such way as to ensure they die completely in the following weeks. Removal of diseased or necrotic tissue removes stress on the tree, allowing nutrients to flow uninterrupted to healthy branches and leaves as well as halting disease processes that might have resulted from the affected limbs.
Another form of pruning is executed to thin live branches to reduce their density. This cuts down on wind resistance and makes the tree far less prone to suffering storm damage or even to be torn out of the ground by strong winds. Other pruning strategies are designed to improve the appearance of the tree, allow greater sunlight to reach the yard to benefit lawn grass and flower beds, and to ensure the strongest limbs to support the tree thrive.
And, in the worst-case scenario, you may have a tree that is clearly compromised by damage, disease, or old age. Contact us for tree cutting services in Queens County NY to carry out the removal of the dead or dying tree on the property. Because of the hazards involved, experts advise taking down the tree in stages to minimize the risks to property and residents.
