Tree Care in Lake Mohegan, NY

If you're looking at the trees around your Lake Mohegan home and feeling uneasy, there's a good reason. Most of the residential trees here were planted when these homes were built in the early 1970s, and builders often chose species for fast growth, not long-term stability. You'll see mature silver maples with their notoriously weak wood and surface roots, and Bradford pears that are now at the exact age where their poor structure makes them prone to splitting. In our USDA 6b climate with over 50 inches of annual rain, these inherent weaknesses are tested by about 13 storms a year. The real risk isn't just a single gust, but the sustained winds we can get, which fatigue a tree before a sudden shift delivers the final blow.