Tree Care in Copake Lake, NY

If you're looking at the trees around your Copake Lake home and feeling uneasy, there's a good reason. Many of the properties here were built in the late 1960s, and the builders often chose trees for speed, not for longevity. You'll see a lot of silver maples and Norway maples from that era. Silver maples grow fast, but their weak wood and aggressive surface roots can damage foundations and walkways. Norway maples create such dense shade that nothing, not even your lawn, grows underneath them. These were the wrong trees for the wrong place, and now, 58 years later, they're reaching the age where structural problems become serious liabilities, especially during our 30-plus annual storm events.