Levy Tree Care

Good morning, Duluth! Looks like our April blizzard is over. If you have a moment before you head off to work, check the trees in your yard to look for any tree branches that are excessively laden with snow. this is the snow that breaks branches. It's heavy, wet, sticks on the branches for a while.
White, red and Scotch pines are conifers especially prone broken branches after a storm like this. So get out there and lighten the load! Here are some photos from yesterday afternoon: a before and after, and two "this is really heavy!" photos of the same tree at a bus stop.

Update on the elder Silver Maple tree: it is not on the removal schedule until after the City Forester returns next week. In the mean time, since we no longer have a Tree or Urban Forest Commission, I suggest contacting your city councilor to express your interest in preserving this tree for a while longer.

I am available and interested in contributing my professional opinion and expertise as needed.

Ryan Jones-Casey
Tina Marie Higgins Wussow
Melody McKnight

If you can manage another “to do” in your brain today, along with “shovel for the fifth time, wondering when the snow plow will come, and what your kid will do on day two of no school” give your trees a look.
They’re getting a pretty huge weight load with all this wet snow. If you can reach the branches, shake off as much snow as your can to avoid a break. Use your hand, a broom, a snow shovel.
This branch is over the roof of my porch. If I can get the window unfrozen I’ll lighten the load.