Why Hire an ISA Certified Arborist
By Jorge Gaona, Owner, Treenewal Certified Arborists
When you get a haircut or get sick, you go to a professional. It only makes sense to do the same as it relates to the trees on your property.
Your trees are part of a beautiful, well-kept landscape. They add curb appeal and can increase your home value while reducing your electric bill each month. They are a significant investment and can have substantial costs to remove and replace them if they are not cared for properly.
Proper planting, care, and maintenance of your trees are essential for your trees to be sustainable. Pruning large trees can be dangerous. If pruning involves working above the ground or using power equipment, it is best to hire a professional certiÂfied arborist. An arborist can determine the pruning necessary to improve the health, appearance, and safety of your trees. A professional arborist can also provide the services of a trained crew that adheres to ANSI-300 Standards with the required safety equipment, and liability insurance.
An ISA Certified Arborist can assist with your sustainable tree care program from planting to removal. From pruning to fertilizing, treating insects, disease, and handling storm damage. Our certified arborist performs work according to arboricultural guidelines, and that’s why you want an expert. Most anyone can cut a tree down, but you want them to do it in a safe manner that does not cause damage to your property, or your neighbor’s, or liability because of not being insured.
The International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) certification means the arborist has not only been trained in the art and the science of arboricultural standards, and given a comprehensive test, but has the experience needed to fulfill the requirements of a certified arborist. Education and knowledge are what you want to ensure the proper care and health of your trees. Certified arborists adhere to a Code of Ethics central to the ideas of and mandatory to the ISA.
ISA certified arborists offer many services addressing all tree service needs, from seedling to towering beauty. Not only can arborists plant your tree, but it can help you with where to place that tree on your property for optimum performance in your landscape. They can assess your tree for the many things that can attack it to suggesting what trees are longest-lasting, disease-resistant, and best for our part of Texas. Some species don’t do well in our part of the country, and to plant them might lead to a constant effort to keep it alive and thriving.
Certified arborists typically offer the following services:
- Tree Surveying
- Tree Planting
- Tree Fertilizing
- Tree Soil Condition
Tree Pruning - Emergency Tree Care
- Tree Removal
Diseased Trees - Tree Insects
- Tree Fungus
- Tree Cabling
- Tree Lightning Protection
- Tree Air Spading
- Tree Soil Conditioning
- Tree Root Exposure
- Tree Mitigation
- Tree Consulting
These are the kinds of services not offered by the guy who stopped by in his pickup truck. A professional certified arborist is what you want, someone who has insurance, knows the art and science of the arboricultural services, but also the legal, aesthetic, and practical aspects of tree placement and maintenance. The way you take care of your tree can be of value to your property, and an ISA Certified Arborist can enhance the value of your trees, property and avoid costly damage.
Jorge Gaona is owner of TreeNewal Certified Arborists, a company that strives to make a difference by saving trees and landscapes. To learn more about how TreeNewal Certified Arborists can assist with your tree service needs, call 214-360-7282, email info@treenewal.com or visit TreeNewal.com.