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Walk down any residential street in the South Sound this June and the same scene repeats yard after yard: a perfect cone of dark wood mulch piled tight against a tree trunk, sometimes a foot or more deep, sloping outward like a tiny volcano. It looks tidy. It looks like
Many Kent homeowners can name two or three of the trees on their property — the big-leaf maple in the back corner, the cedar near the fence, maybe a Douglas-fir that came with the house. The other six or seven? Best guess. That guesswork stops mattering the moment one of
Summer in western Washington brings a deceptively quiet stretch — leaves are full, canopies look healthy from the curb, and the windstorms that took down trees last November feel like a long way off. But June is exactly when the trees most likely to fail this year are already showing
Western Washington’s run of dry summers has left a backlog of drought-killed and severely declining conifers on residential acreage across the South Sound — and many of them sit in places a traditional ground-felled removal can’t safely handle. Tall western red cedars over a home, half-dead Douglas-firs leaning toward a
Western Washington conifers spent the long, wet spring fully hydrated — and then late May and early June flipped the switch toward dry, sunny weather that strips moisture from needles and soil faster than many homeowners expect. By the time the first browned needle tips appear, the underlying drought stress
Western Washington’s mild, wet climate produces some of the most productive forests in North America — and some of the most aggressive fungal pathogens. By the time June rolls in, the cool spring rains that drive new growth have also created the perfect incubation conditions for leaf spot, anthracnose, canker,
