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What's everyone doing this week? The proper answer is, registering last minute for the Society of American Foresters Alaska Annual Conference! Register here:

2026 AKSAF Annual Meeting | SAF - Society of American Foresters - Northwest Region Join us April 22-24 Soldotna, AK for the annual meeting and technical tour. Highlights include: • Field tour examining long-term fuels mitigation and forest restoration projects• Technical presentations from forestry […]

Are you in Anchorage and dealing with the dreaded chokecherry?! Call Paul!

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🌿 INVASIVE ALERT: Prunus Species Threatening Our Native Ecosystems 🌿
Did you know invasive Prunus species like chokecherry are silently taking over our natural areas? These non-native invaders outcompete our beloved local plants and disrupt critical wildlife habitats that our native species depend on.
👥 Community Action Needed! Volunteers and landowners are the backbone of this restoration effort. Together, we're clearing invasive growth and replanting native species to bring balance back to our ecosystems.
💰 Special Offer for Landowners: Paul's Tree Service is offering a 10% discount on invasive Prunus removal services (removal only, excludes other services, pruning, or stump grinding)
🌱 Every plant removed brings us one step closer to healthier, thriving ecosystems. Your participation makes a real difference!
Ready to take action? Learn more at: http://www.akinvasiveplants.org/

Hey Alaska Tree Care Professionals! This one is for you! Get your education on in Anchorage September 11th and 12th with PNW ISA Arb trainings!

Pacific Northwest ISA The PNW-ISA Chapter is happy to host a 2 day workshop instructed by Jim Flott. This workshop takes place on Thursday September 11 and Friday September 12, 2025. You have the option of attending the full 2-day event at a discounted fee – or you can attend one of two day education workshops. 12 CEU'...

Hello friends! The rumors are true: Yes, I am downsizing my tree business! My truck and chipper are for sale. However, I am keeping my professional licensing and tree business phone number for now, to continue doing occasional tree projects. I'm still just a phone call away, and can recommend some wonderful companies I have teamed up with over the years to help with your tree work needs.

Why would I do such a thing, you might ask? Well, after 15 years of a career that has included removing a LOT of trees, I have felt a steadily increasing desire to transition into conservation work. I currently have some exciting opportunities to pursue and see where the journey takes me. It just feels like the next right thing ❤️🌲🌳🌲

For my amazing repeat clients, many who have become friends — please don't hesitate to call me about your trees (or just to say hello 😊). I can set you up with someone to do your work if I'm not able to do it.

I will still be doing full cleanup jobs through October (or perhaps sooner if I get an offer I cannot refuse); if we spoke earlier this season about fall tree work, please get ahold of me ASAP!

I have had quite a few clients ask where they can get spruce trees to replant after losing their forests to spruce bark beetle. This program is for you!

🌲Alaska Forest Stewardship Program Tree Seedling give-away!!

Starting this summer, the Forest Stewardship Program in Alaska is undertaking an initiative to connect private forest landowners with seedlings (for free!). "We have a 5-year contract with Coast-to-Coast Reforestation (Alberta, Canada) to start Alaskan seed and ship seedlings back to us each summer from now until 2029. This year, we still have approximately 4,700 seedlings available to give away on the Kenai Peninsula, 8,400 for the Mat-Su Valley area, and 4,000 seedlings available to folks in the Fairbanks Area."

Cut those chokecherries, folks!

📣 Private landowner assistance for invasive chokecherry (a.k.a. European bird cherry or mayday) tree removal!🌳🍒

Have you seen these trees? Have one on your property? Invasive chokecherry trees outcompete native plants, degrade salmon habitat, and can be toxic to moose. Help protect what we all love and depend on by removing these trees from your yard.

Removal can be tricky - contact us to find out how we might be able to help you out! For details, email Jen Chauvet at [email protected].

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We kicked off our spring tree work season this week with some fun removals around the peninsula! I am now scheduling projects for the 2024 season, call (360)990-4306 for a free quote.

Let's talk about spray paint! Typically, the posts I share on this company page are about fun projects we enjoyed doing. But this is a darker topic I would like to comment on, because I am seeing more and more of it, especially around Homer area. Spray paint is NOT an appropriate marking tool (1) if they are not trees growing on property YOU LEGALLY OWN or (2) if you do own the tree but you are uncertain you will want to remove it and you haven't thought it through--living with that big red X, or selling your home with it. If a contractor shows up with a can of spray paint to give you a bid, that's a huge red flag. In the instance of these pictures, a contractor giving this apartment complex a bid in Homer defaced almost every single live and healthy spruce tree on this property with spray paint. It is visible from the road and every angle, and painful to look at.

Frankly, I panicked a bit when we arrived to do the work and I saw this, knowing we would be working there for days with our logos on our trucks and all of Homer driving past. I want to be clear that we were NOT the contractors who vandalized these trees (yes, that's what you call spray-painting someone else's property without permission); it was another company giving a bid for work. If you legally own the trees and you want to spray paint an X, or the name of your high school crush on your own trees, or carve your feelings into them or whatever strikes your fancy--go for it! It's your tree, and you can choose to have it cut down, or keep it forever or explain it to whoever you are selling the property to in 5 years.

But if you are a contractor, or just a guy with a chainsaw who works around town without a license, DO NOT SPRAY PAINT TREES TO MARK THEM. This could result in legal action taken against you; it is defacing property. The second picture shows a ribbon tied around a tree that can be easily removed. Go buy a roll of this stuff, and save yourself the lawyer fees. You would never see a building contractor spray-painting the sides of a building they are giving a quote to work on; don't do it to their trees either!

We beat the snow yesterday to get these tricky birch tree removals done in Homer! A couple of these trees were in poor condition, and in a very tricky spot. We used a bucket truck, 3 climbers, and I had to bust out 2 climbing systems and 3 points of attachment to climb and rig material from one of the trees that had some significant decay in the trunks that the bucket truck couldn't reach. I got out of the tree just in time to see Jordan doing some climbing too! And of course Wyatt was awesome as usual. Getting a bunch of wood down and always being in the right place at the right time. I'm feeling lucky today to have this crew to work with!