Tree Care in Jefferson Valley-Yorktown, NY

If you're looking at the trees in your Jefferson Valley-Yorktown yard and feeling uneasy, you're not imagining things. Many of the mature trees here, planted when these neighborhoods were developed in the late 1960s, are now at a critical age. We see a lot of silver maples and Bradford pears from that era. Builders chose them for fast growth, but silver maple has weak wood and aggressive surface roots, and every Bradford pear is structurally guaranteed to split after 15 to 20 years. That timeline is up. With our local storm patterns, which average over 13 events a year, these inherent weaknesses become real liabilities. The sustained winds we can get, followed by a sudden shift, fatigue these compromised trees until they fail.