Tree Service in Carson City, NV

Carson City takes its trees seriously. The Nevada Division of Forestry lists it as a Tree City USA since 1994, with Growth Awards for expanding its program, and the city has a volunteer Shade Tree Council that advises the Board of Supervisors on keeping a safe, healthy urban forest on public and private land. For Tree Service in Carson City, that means a community that values mature trees and expects them to be pruned properly, not hacked back.

Most of the city lives in Eagle Valley

Most Carson City residents live in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range. The city averages about 9.34 inches of precipitation a year, most of it in winter and spring, and about 14 inches of snow. Summers are hot and dry. Large shade trees on older central streets depend on irrigation, and drought stress is behind much of the decline we see. Pruning cannot fix a water problem, so we will ask how a tree is watered before recommending anything.

The Waterfall Fire

On July 14, 2004, a fire believed to have started from an unattended campfire near the falls in Kings Canyon got out of control within about nine hours. It destroyed 17 homes: nine in Kings Canyon, seven in Timberline and one on Betts Road off Curry Street. West-side neighborhoods along the foothills still sit against the same kind of brush and forest. Limbing trees up, keeping branches off roofs, and thinning brush within 30 feet of the house are the most useful steps for those properties.

Public trees are inventoried

In 2015 Carson City Parks and Recreation and Public Works hired a consultant to inventory public trees along street rights-of-way, in city parks, at Eagle Valley Golf Course and at Lone Mountain Cemetery, recording each tree's species, size, condition and GPS location. The city uses that data to plan pruning, planting and removal. If a tree in front of your house might be a city tree, call Carson City Parks and Recreation before scheduling work on it.

An older, settled population

Census QuickFacts reports that 21.2 percent of Carson City residents are 65 or older, 62.3 percent of homes are owner-occupied, and 86.5 percent of residents lived in the same house a year earlier. Long-time owners often have trees they planted decades ago that are now far larger than expected. Many would rather not be on a ladder with a saw, and recurring pruning every few years keeps those trees manageable.

Elm leaf beetle in the capital

University of Nevada Extension educator JoAnne Skelly has written about Siberian elms stripped by elm leaf beetles, and about a Carson home where the overwintering adults got into the upstairs. A female beetle can lay 400 to 800 eggs in a season. The damage looks dramatic but is rarely fatal; healthy, watered elms usually leaf out again. If the tree is also dropping limbs or growing into the roof, that is where we come in.

Carson City services

• Pruning mature shade trees to ANSI A300 standards
• Removal of dead or declining trees, including sectional removal near homes
• Defensible space work on west-side foothill lots
• Stump grinding
• Storm cleanup after wind and snow events

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