Services

Tree Evaluations & Restoration, Preservation and Management

care plans

Tree Keepers® also provides critical area buffer management and forest management plans to help property owners improve their property’s role in protecting Maine’s Shore Land Zone and Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Critical Area. Best landscaping practices with trees and buffers contribute to improving the health of our environment.

Elements of a Risk Assessment:

  • Inspect co-dominance of tree’s limbs. Determine if limbs are growing incorrectly and jeopardizing the tree’s base and strength.
  • Inspect cracks in the tree to determine if the tree is rotten or has insects.
  • Evaluate the tree for signs of stress, including cankers.
  • Evaluate the tree’s root system to see if it is lifting.
  • Evaluate your property for high-risk or potentially hazardous trees and recommend a course of action and care guidelines.

Integrative Pest Management (IPM)

When trees become sick, Tree Keepers® can provide interventions to help the tree’s health. Interventions include monitoring and treatment of the trees’ ecosystem to ensure that it remains healthy, safe and suitable for property owners and community standards. Damage and destruction caused by insects and diseases can severely limit the ability of trees and shrubs in your landscape to manufacture the sugars and substances needed to remain healthy. Stanley believes in using environmentally-friendly techniques for handling pests and disease. Tree Keepers® is a distributor for Arborjet.®

Critical Area and Forest Area Buffer Management Plans

Tree Keepers® also provides critical area buffer management and forest management plans to help property owners improve their property’s role in protecting the Chesapeake Bay. A large portion of the Eastern Shore falls in the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area, the 1000-foot wide area of land around the Bay and its tidal tributaries. Best landscaping practices with trees and buffers contribute to improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the Delmarva Peninsula.

Traditional

Tree Services

Pruning

Expert pruning improves the health and appearance of trees, prolonging their life through the removal of undesirable branches, whether they are dead, weakened, diseased or insect-infested.
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Pruning

Expert pruning improves the health and appearance of trees, prolonging their useful life through the removal of undesirable branches, whether they are dead, weakened, diseased or insect-infested. As a tree’s health suffers and declines, the odds for defoliation and death sharply increase. A specialized Tree Keepers® Plant Health Care program for trees and shrubs is the most logical step toward managing the spread of harmful insects and devastating diseases. High-quality, expert tree pruning is the cornerstone of Tree Keepers®.

Cabling and Bracing

Installing steel cables between major limbs reduces strain and helps support the tree. Cabling also helps reduce stress damage from high winds and excess ice or snow weight.

Root Collar Excavation

Planting trees too deeply and excessively piling mulch on the trunks of trees has become a chronic problem in urban and suburban landscapes.
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Root Collar Excavation

Planting trees too deeply and excessively piling mulch on the trunks of trees has become a chronic problem in urban and suburban landscapes. Deeply planted or buried trees are prone to girdling roots, poor growth, pest problems and decline or death. Root collar excavation, or the removal of soil and mulch from against the trunk, is a simple, effective process that can correct deep planting and over-mulching. View this video about The Air Spade for more information.

Other services

Insect Services

Brown Tail Moth Caterpillar

The brown tail moth is an invasive species found only on the coast of Maine and Cape Cod. This moth caterpillar has tiny airborne poisonous hairs that cause dermatitis from direct contact with the caterpillar or indirectly from contact with airborne hairs. Respiratory distress from inhaling the hairs can be serious.
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Brown Tail Moth Caterpillar

Emerald Ash Borer

The emerald ash borer, also known by the acronym EAB, is a green buprestidae or jewel beetle native to north-eastern Asia that feeds on ash species. Females lay eggs in bark crevices on ash trees, and larvae feed underneath the bark of ash trees to emerge as adults in one to two years.
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An emerald ash borer. Less than an inch long, the insects have been found in Aroostook County and in southern Maine.

Emerald Ash Borer

Winter moth Caterpillar

Winter moth is a very serious insect pest. Over the past 15+ years it has caused significant damage to and the decline of many trees. Many deciduous trees (primarily oak) are displaying signs of serious decline.
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Winter moth Caterpillar

Brown Tail Moth Caterpillar

The brown tail moth is an invasive species found only on the coast of Maine and Cape Cod. This moth caterpillar has tiny airborne poisonous hairs that cause dermatitis from direct contact with the caterpillar or indirectly from contact with airborne hairs. Respiratory distress from inhaling the hairs can be serious.
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Brown Tail Moth Caterpillar

Emerald Ash Borer

The emerald ash borer, also known by the acronym EAB, is a green Buprestidae or jewel beetle native to north-eastern Asia that feeds on ash species. Females lay eggs in bark crevices on ash trees, and larvae feed underneath the bark of ash trees to emerge as adults in one to two years.
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An emerald ash borer. Less than an inch long, the insects have been found in Aroostook County and in southern Maine.

Emerald Ash Borer

Winter moth Caterpillar

Winter moth is a very serious insect pest. Over the past 15+ years it has caused significant damage to and the decline of many trees. Many deciduous trees (primarily oak) are displaying signs of serious decline.
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Winter moth Caterpillar

Woolly Adelgid

The hemlock woolly adelgid has become a serious pest of the native North American eastern hemlock.
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Wooly Adelgid

Woolly Adelgid

The hemlock woolly adelgid has become a serious pest of the native North American eastern hemlock.
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Wooly Adelgid

Professional and experienced

Expert Witness Services

As an expert witness, Robert is called upon to testify because of his skill, experience, training, education, and expertise meaningful to a party in attempting to prove its case.

Robert’s qualifications as an expert are credentialing and work experience with specialization in arboriculture and plant appraisal.

As an expert witness, Robert has demonstrated sound judgment in analyzing facts, expressing himself clearly. He communicates complex material in a fashion that can be understood by those who do not have expertise in the field and handles intense cross-examination.