Native Roots Forest and Land Care, LLC

Native Roots Forest and Land Care, LLC Helping our land and trees to thrive for generations to come. Visit our website for more information

http://www.nativerootsllc.com/
Wild Land, Residential,& Commercial Services including:
Large Acreage Forestry
Lot Design & Preparation
Erosion Mitigation
Residential & Commercial Tree Care (pruning, roof clearing, dead tree removal)
Landscape Creations
Ponds and Water Features
Chipping and Mulching

Navigating a big Oak jungle gym is always interesting! Spider leg rigging on a dead limb over a garage ~ smooth operati...
01/20/2025

Navigating a big Oak jungle gym is always interesting! Spider leg rigging on a dead limb over a garage ~ smooth operations.

01/16/2025

It was a windy ride in this old, broad-spreading Live Oak, on a ledge of Skyline Ridge in the Wimberley area. Broken tops, from ice storm Uri a couple of years ago, were removed, and the whole tree was conservatively pruned, reducing lots of stress reaction over-sprouting into a viable growth map.
Groves of Ashe Juniper below are yellow with full pods of pollen. Don't scorn them for their allergy-inducing gift. Look how much of the tree population below is Juniper. They are adept at surviving the rigors of this ecosystem, and contribute to soil production year-round, more than any other species.

12/21/2024

This was a great way to round out this day - being in a Sycamore, dressed in her Autumn colors.

12/06/2024

~ Along the Blanco River, Wimberley, Nov. '24 ~
This Cypress giant died in the May, 2015 disastrous flood. The Wagon Wheel Neighborhood River Park community wisely chose to leave a few of their stable dead trees standing for as long as possible. This old one did what big elder shoreline trees do in floods - it took the brunt of the impacts from rushing debris, such as uprooted trees, broken houses and vehicles. Just downriver of the broad trunk, smaller trees and plants have shelter, are flexible, and thus have a chance of survival. That surviving growth is thriving at this spot. The old tree continued to protect these specimens in successive floods, giving the young trees a chance to mature.
When this elder became too unstable to remain standing in a park zone, it was time for some directional felling. The main lean was over the water and young trees. So, we set a line to assist it into the open pocket, and I cut a high stump, over the Saw Palmetto and its friends. I look a little jumpy in the cut, because I was...ready to jump! The whole stem was full of vertical fractures, and spongy on one side. Yet the notch side was solid, signaling we could do it. Still, I was ready to bolt if it came apart during the cut.
Thank you, old one, for protecting the new generation of Live Oak, Sycamore, Ash and Cypress, all here because you held strong.

12/04/2024

A portable chainsaw mill is now aboard! 42" width and 4" depth capacity - if you'd like to transform your felled wood into custom boards onsite, we're ready.

Hill Country community, it's Oak care season! Earlier the better to schedule your trees' pruning needs. We're here to h...
11/09/2024

Hill Country community, it's Oak care season! Earlier the better to schedule your trees' pruning needs. We're here to help.
Happy Autumn 🍂

10/30/2024

Good news ~ an environment restoration success

We're grateful for so many pretty days and frequent rains this summer. Here, we're pruning broken Ashe Juniper tops last...
07/21/2024

We're grateful for so many pretty days and frequent rains this summer. Here, we're pruning broken Ashe Juniper tops last week - we're still often working in the wake of ice storm Uri, in 2021.

What to do when it's 95 and too hot for green pruning in central Texas? Reducing the fuel load around residences is a g...
06/28/2024

What to do when it's 95 and too hot for green pruning in central Texas? Reducing the fuel load around residences is a good option. This big old deceased Juniper was inside and right on the garden fence. Never boring! Next at this site is clearing high breaks from the ice storm two years ago. Can I get a cold lemonade delivered here? Cheers 🌞

06/02/2024

Gaffs, spikes, spurs, picks... whatever we call them, they're great for removals, which is beginning here on a hazardous Pine. Yet, they are not ok to use otherwise. The only exception is with huge old Firs and such, whose bark is so thick that the picks don't damage the cambium. It is proven that in living trees, each puncture point of the spike becomes a vulnerability- a vector for insects and destructive fungi. If you see anyone about to spike up your trees, and those trees are to be kept, please intervene.

Happy Spring, Native Roots community!
03/21/2024

Happy Spring, Native Roots community!

Sometimes, to get to where we need to go, we gotta get low, and butt scoot a few inches at a time. This was yesterday, ...
01/20/2024

Sometimes, to get to where we need to go, we gotta get low, and butt scoot a few inches at a time. This was yesterday, reading what to prune on a Cedar Elm to create roof clearance.

This update on the dismantling of 3 dams along the Klamath river in northern California and Oregon, the most intensive r...
01/20/2024

This update on the dismantling of 3 dams along the Klamath river in northern California and Oregon, the most intensive river and salmon restoration project ever, gives a great overview of the deeply thought out and planned effort.

It's Oak pruning season in Texas. Which for this climbing arborist, means many wonderful days in grand, broad spreading ...
01/02/2024

It's Oak pruning season in Texas. Which for this climbing arborist, means many wonderful days in grand, broad spreading trees. Knowing some of them have provided shade, oxygen and serenity for centuries is inspiring. May we have such endurance and flexibility.

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It was a windy ride in this old, broad-spreading Live Oak, on a ledge of Skyline Ridge in the Wimberley area. Broken tops, from ice storm Uri a couple of years ago, were removed, and the whole tree was conservatively pruned, reducing lots of stress reaction over-sprouting into a viable growth map. Groves of Ashe Juniper below are yellow with full pods of pollen. Don't scorn them for their allergy-inducing gift. Look how much of the tree population below is Juniper. They are adept at surviving the rigors of this ecosystem, and contribute to soil production year-round, more than any other species.

This was a great way to round out this day - being in a Sycamore, dressed in her Autumn colors.

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