Tree Trimming in Blue Lake, CA

Blue Lake sits in the Mad River valley where the fog belt starts giving way to sunshine, and its trees split the difference: redwoods and firs on the hills, cottonwoods and alders along the river, and mature orchards and shade trees in the old railroad-town blocks.

How tree trimming goes in Blue Lake

A trim in Blue Lake is quoted by the hours: how much of the crown needs work, whether everything is lowered or can drop into a clear zone, and how far the chips travel. Blue Lake is twenty minutes from McKinleyville and paired with Arcata jobs on the same day. If the honest answer is that the coast redwood does not need anything this year, that is what you hear.

Blue Lake sits where the Mad River valley starts leaving the fog, so it grows fast, gets warm summers, and takes valley wind in winter. Fast-growing cottonwoods and alders along the river dropping limbs young, and hazard firs on the wooded town edges, are the steady Blue Lake calls.

When Blue Lake homeowners call for tree trimming

• Dead limbs you can see from the yard; if you can see them, there are more you cannot.
• A crowded, heavy crown near the Mad River that catches wind like a sail every winter.
• A yard in permanent shade under a coast redwood that could be lifted and thinned for light.
• Limbs in the service drop or the communication lines out front.

Blue Lake mixes old railroad-town blocks with river-bottom parcels and wooded edges, and most properties have room to get a chipper close. River-bottom soil is deep and soft, which makes stumps easy to grind but big trees more prone to lean when the water table is high.

Working in Blue Lake

Our Blue Lake work runs from hazard fir removals on the wooded edges of town to fruit tree pruning in backyards that have been producing apples since the mill days. River-bottom trees grow fast and drop limbs young, so cottonwood and alder maintenance is a steady call too.

Around Blue Lake that means the Mad River, Glendale, the old railroad-town blocks, Blue Lake Boulevard, and the properties between. Mad River valley growth, fast-growing river-bottom hardwoods, wooded town edges.