Tree Care in Spring Lake, NJ

If you're looking at the trees in your Spring Lake yard and feeling uneasy, there's a good reason. Most of the homes here were built in the late 1950s, which means the trees are now about 68 years old. That's the age when many common builder-planted species, like silver maple and Bradford pear, begin to show serious structural problems. The silver maples have weak wood and aggressive surface roots that can damage walkways, while the Bradford pears are practically guaranteed to split at their weak branch unions. Our coastal storms, with 25 events a year on average, put immense stress on these aging trees. The most dangerous pattern is a sustained wind from one direction followed by a sudden shift, which fatigues the wood and can lead to failure.