Storm line answered 24/7
(512) 555-0142A crew member answers this line. Not an answering service.
(512) 555-0142Either way you end up talking to the same crew. This just decides what we put in front of you first — and the storm line is (512) 555-0142 whichever you pick.
Services
Service areas
Hays County
Arborists working Belterra, Headwaters, Driftwood and every neighbourhood in between. Everything scoped in writing, full cleanup, no travel surcharge.
Dripping Springs is where our work shifts from residential tree care to land management. Lots are measured in acres rather than feet, and the question is usually not what to do with one tree but what the whole parcel should look like in ten years.
The heritage live oaks out here are exceptional. Some are several centuries old, with limb spreads wider than the houses near them, and they are worth serious protective effort. That effort is mostly about what you do not do: no compaction inside the root zone, no grade changes, no irrigation systems running against the trunk, and absolutely no pruning between February and June.
Everything else is cedar. Ashe juniper has expanded enormously across Hays County in the absence of the fires that historically kept it in check, and thinning it back is what lets grass, wildflowers and young hardwoods return.
If you are near Hamilton Pool, we are already working your street most weeks. This list is not exhaustive, so call even if you do not see your subdivision.
Locally requested
Selective clearing that takes out the cedar and leaves the oaks worth keeping.
Learn moreWritten, defensible assessments for permits, construction, disputes and insurance.
Learn moreDiagnosis and treatment for oak wilt, decline and pests, from the people who see it every week.
Learn moreStructural pruning that improves the health of the tree instead of just making it smaller.
Learn moreQuestions
Fence the critical root zone before any equipment arrives, generally at one foot of radius for every inch of trunk diameter, and keep everything out of it. No parking, no material storage, no spoil piles, no trenching. Where a utility must cross, bore beneath rather than trench through. Most heritage oak deaths on build sites trace to compaction, and the tree usually does not show it for two or three years.
On dense stands, yes, measurably. A mature Ashe juniper intercepts a significant share of light rainfall in its canopy, where it evaporates without ever reaching the ground. Thinning dense cedar increases the proportion of rainfall that infiltrates the soil and reaches recharge, which matters a great deal on well-dependent Hays County acreage.
Yes. Selective brush management is a common qualifying practice for wildlife management valuation in Hays County, and we regularly carry out clearing designed to meet a specific management plan. Bring us your plan and we will scope the work to match it, including documentation of what was done and where.
Work log
These are illustrative of the kind of work and the kind of decision, written up as a crew note. This is a demonstration site: it publishes no reviews, no ratings and no customer names, because it has no customers.
Dead pecan standing six feet from a bedroom wall.
No room to fell and no crane access down the side return, so the tree came down in rigged sections lowered on a friction device. The climber walked the homeowner through the rigging plan from the ground before going up, which is standard: anyone whose house is under the drop zone is entitled to understand it.
Close quarters is a rigging problem, not a felling problem.
Homeowner had two quotes to top the tree.
Topping was declined and the reason explained: the flush of weak regrowth it triggers is far more likely to fail than the limb being removed, and the decay pockets left behind never close. The tree was reduced to suitable lateral branches instead, taking roughly 15% of the live crown.
A company that offers to top your tree is telling you something.
Three live oaks thinning from the top down.
Pattern and veinal necrosis matched oak wilt. A trench was cut to sever the root grafts running toward the healthy stems, and the two unaffected trees were injected. The infected tree was removed outside beetle season and the wood was not kept on site.
Roughly 90% of local spread is underground. Trenching is the treatment.
A free on-site visit from an arborist, the whole scope agreed in writing before we start, and no travel surcharge anywhere in our service area.
The kit
Display, colour, access and storage
Theme
Both themes are drawn rather than inverted. Light is the canopy at noon, dark is the understory at dusk, and the drifting light in the hero is tuned separately for each.
Mode
The same switch that sits in the header. Emergency mode overrides the colour scheme on purpose — see the note under Palette.
Colour scheme
Four schemes, each measured for text contrast in both light and dark before it was offered here. A scheme that could not pass in both is not in this list.
Emergency mode is frozen against this control. Whatever scheme you pick, a limb on the roof is always signal amber — a warning colour that moves with a brand preference is not a warning colour.
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Switches
Reduce motion starts switched on if your device already asks for it. These are real controls, not a badge: this site claims no formal accessibility conformance, because it has not been audited against one. What it has been is measured — seethe accessibility statement.
What this site keeps
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Internal machinery. Reachable only at ?studio=1 and never shown to a visitor.
Identity
Colour
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