Tree Pruning

Trees are valuable assets to both our environment and our lives and they require maintenance just like a home or a car. Missoula Tree Preservation specializes in proper pruning techniques to improve the health, safety, and appearance of your trees. Whether you have a mature Norway maple or a young Apple tree, a Certified Arborist will assess your trees and recommend pruning based on industry standards. Such preventative maintenance can both increase the lifespan of your tree and add value to your property. Our recommendations may include some or all of the following International Society of Arboriculture pruning standards.

-Crown cleaning: refers to the removal of dead, dying, and diseased limbs as well as crowded branches, weakly attached branches and low vigor branches from the tree canopy.

-Crown thinning: refers to selective removal of branches to increase light penetration and air movement throughout the crown. Thinning opens the foliage of a tree, reduces weight on heavy limbs, and helps retain the tree’s natural shape.

-Crown raising: removal of low branches from a tree in order to provide clearance for buildings, vehicles, pedestrians, and wires.

-Crown reduction: ‘end weight reduction’ performed by climbing to the tips of heavy branches and making a series of small pruning cuts to improve tree structure and help prevent storm damage. Reduction pruning can help manage damage or cracks in branches, bark inclusions, and co-dominant leaders.