Tree Care in Orono, MN

If you're looking at the mature trees in your Orono yard, you're likely seeing the legacy of the 1980s building boom. Many of these trees are now 40-45 years old, entering a critical phase where structural weaknesses from their youth become major liabilities. The silver maples planted for quick shade have brittle wood and surface roots that threaten foundations. The once-popular green ash trees are now standing deadwood, killed by the emerald ash borer. Our cold-humid climate, with 27 storm events a year and heavy, wet snows, tests these aging trees severely. The most common failures we see here - uprooting in saturated spring soils or large limbs splitting at weak unions - often trace back to a tree being the wrong species for its location from the start.