STORM DAMAGE TREE SERVICE
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Wind, rain, snow, lightning—these weather conditions can negatively affect and even harm the trees on your property. You may find significant damage after a storm has passed over your property. Whether you have downed trees in your yard or severely damaged trees throughout your property, contact All Season Tree Service for storm and emergency tree services in Edmonton.
Our professional arborists will visit your property to evaluate any storm damage. After assessing the situation, we recommend which trees should be removed and which can be saved. We understand that trees take many years to grow, so our team strives to ensure you do not remove any trees that can still be salvaged.
FALLEN TREE OR DOWNED BRANCHES ON YOUR PROPERTY?
Following a storm, we often receive requests to remove stray branches or even a fallen tree. Edmonton homeowners (and those in other Southern Alberta cities) can count on the experience of All Season Tree Service to get the job done right the first time. We employ state-of-the-art equipment and highly trained workers to quickly clear out tree limbs, branches, and fallen trees throughout the region. Our team is known for being fast, efficient, and cost-effective.
If you need help removing branches or a fallen tree in Edmonton or the surrounding communities, call All Season Tree Service for a free quote today! We’re here for all your tree service needs.
STORM-DAMAGED TREE HAZARD ANALYSIS
Trees that have been split, battered, or damaged can pose a risk to people and property. If you have damaged trees on your property, our team can come out to analyze the extent of the damage, propose a solution, and provide you with a free quote. In many instances, trees damaged by high winds can be saved through remedial measures, such as bracing.
Unfortunately, only half of the trees struck by lightning will survive. During a lightning strike, water and other liquids inside a tree trunk instantly turn to gas, exploding the bark and other critical features. Trees that survive a lightning strike will be significantly weakened and likely fall to high winds or disease within a few years. For prized property trees, a copper cable can be strung from the highest limb of the tree and grounded. This can help bypass the lightning strike's electrical discharge and save your tree.
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WINTER STORM DAMAGE INFORMATION FOR EDMONTON HOMEOWNERS
The harsh winters in Alberta can significantly impact the trees in your area. During these cold months, trees may suffer from ice glaze damage, frost cracks, fallen branches, and damage caused by strong winds. Protecting your trees during these challenging times can help ensure their survival. While some trees produce their own protective resin-like substances to shield themselves from winter storm damage, others require our assistance to endure the season.
TYPES OF WINTER DAMAGE
- Frost Damage: This can occur when ice forms in plant tissues, affecting stems, buds, leaves, and roots. This damage can result in the development of girdles, cankers, scabby bark, cracks, burls, ribs, rosetting, and more.
- Late Spring Frost Damage: This occurs in spring when the temperature drops below freezing before the new leaves and needles have fully developed. It is characterized by wilting, discolouration and dropping of foliage.
- Winter Desiccation Damage: Also known as frost drought, this damage is caused by the parts of trees above the ground level being exposed to warm, dry air and sun while the ground is still frozen.
- Snow and Ice Glaze Damage: During heavy snowfall, the weight of the snow and ice glaze accumulating on the branches can cause heavy damage. This weakens the stems by either freezing the tissues or breaking the branches.
SIGNS OF SNOW DAMAGE
- Wilting of branches
- Scabby barks, cracks or cankers
- Discolouration and defoliation of needles and leaves
- Discolouration of foliage of whole or parts of trees
- Reddish-brown discoloured patches on trees
- Dieback or the progressive death of twigs, branches, shoots and roots, with the decay beginning at the tips
HOW WE CAN HELP
As professional arborists, we can help your trees and shrubs recover from snow and ice. Sometimes, we will have to wait for the snow or ice to melt around your trees before we can assess the winter storm damage. The tree can fully recover if only small limbs and twigs are frozen. But if big branches are damaged, it becomes hard to save the tree. We can help in the following ways:
- Help reduce the damage: We can always provide you with tips and tricks for saving your trees. For example, you can water the roots before the ground freezes during winter, cover open or damaged parts with paper or plastic, and use many other methods to reduce the damage.
- Pruning: Most severely frozen trees can be pruned to remove the damaged part of the tree. We know where to cut and how to save the tree from further damage and death. We avoid over-pruning to make sure the tree remains healthy.
- No tree topping: We avoid tree topping to ensure the tree grows healthier. Removing large structural branches only damages and weakens the tree in the long run.
SEASONAL PREVENTATIVE TREE SERVICE
If you’re worried about the potential damage to your trees from the fierce Alberta winters, contact All Season Tree Service. We want to help minimize any damage to your trees, and with our more than 30 years of experience, our certified arborists can help you preserve your trees through rain, wind, and snow. Call our experts now and schedule an appointment to keep the trees on your property healthy and strong with our storm-damage tree services in Edmonton.
