Due to reasons such as pruning, location of growth and species characteristics, trees can grow in ways that don’t endorse long-term health and safety. To counter trees growing in unsafe ways, cabling, ...

My current example involves a 60-inch trunk diameter coast live oak. Half of the tree fell when one component failed in the cable system. Fortunately, there was no “occupancy” under or near the tree — ...

Mother Nature has hammered us again. First in the checklist of cleaning up tree damage is patience. The most dangerous thing to be aware of is downed electrical lines hidden in the debris. I know the ...