Atwood Tree Care

🚨PSA: Cleburne🚨🪲🌳☠️The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is an invasive, metallic green beetle that kills ash trees by feeding on the tissue under the bark, causing canopy dieback, epicormic sprouting, and D-shaped exit holes. Native to East Asia, it arrived in the U.S. (officially found and documented in 2002 in Michigan-although with further research, we think it probably got here around the 1990s) in wood packaging and spreads rapidly through human transport. Especially via infested firewood, killing ash trees within a few years. Management includes pre-treating trees before signs of infection, removing infested trees, and planting diverse species, as EAB is a major threat to urban and rural forests. And remember DO NOT keep on property for firewood. If you see any of these signs or suspect EAB, please immediately notify your local Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service-Johnson County.

I know this is Ag. But stick with me for a second. So for those who have had me come out and do consultations for, you’ve seen me use my penetrometer and I talk to you about we don’t like 300 psi and over…. This is what I’m talking about 🙌🏼. Again, don’t put a Band-Aid on the problem fix the problem SOIL. 

It may look like Tree caviar, but it is not good😂 and no even if I’m trying, I cannot say similarly correctly🤦🏼‍♂️😂

I absolutely love doing consultations! You get to help people with their Trees, give them sound advice to get everything back to a healthy status and sometimes even inspire. But every once in a while, it’s a tearful consultation. Over 175 miles driven today some good some bad😢

With all the interest from the “killing your tree with style” post, we had a ton of mulching questions. When you don’t need a air spade and you just need to make a bigger mulching and the correct way to do it… That’s what this video is about.🙌🏼🌳❤️ ring

Love to see it when done correctly🙌🏼🌳❤️. It’s not by accident. Purposely protecting the The Tree and properly preparing the work zone is a beautiful thing.

Smh🤦🏼‍♂️. As I see more companies in our industry, add the bullet point of “we do land clearing” to the list of expertise- I see the OSU study and advertisements like this pushing that narrative. As if we don’t have enough tree companies that aren’t truly experts in their field, doing things in urban forestry we gave them doing the same thing in land clearing. So often they have zero knowledge of hydrology or what grading can do to change up Landscape in that immediate area much less down the river 20 miles people take watershed-scale findings and turn them into a blanket prescription: “Cedars waste water, therefore remove cedars.” The science is usually more nuanced than that. The studies tend to support managing excessive encroachment, not necessarily eliminating cedars as a species.
As an arboricultural parallel, it would be like finding that overcrowded urban tree stands have competition issues and then concluding that all trees should be thinned. The context matters as much as the result. Studies as a blanket justification for cedar removal is that the context often gets lost. Most of the research was conducted on large watersheds with extensive redcedar encroachment into native grasslands, not on residential properties or landscapes with a handful of trees. What happens after removal matters too. If cedars are replaced by dense brush, invasive species, or other high-water-use vegetation, the expected water savings may be reduced. Increased runoff also doesn’t necessarily mean more water is being stored in the soil where plants can benefit from it. There are ecological tradeoffs as well. Removing cedars may help some prairie species, but it can reduce habitat for wildlife that relies on cedar cover. Poorly managed removal can increase erosion until vegetation reestablishes. There’s also the issue of carbon storage, since mature trees hold significant amounts of carbon that can be lost when they’re removed. Finally, results from Oklahoma prairie watersheds shouldn’t automatically be applied to East Texas forests, urban landscapes, or mixed oak-juniper ecosystems, where the ecological conditions and management goals can be very different.

Wait until they learn that doing this increases the spread of Oak wilt 😒