While much of a tree service professional's time is spent enhancing tree health and maintaining beauty in the landscape, sometimes removing trees becomes part of the job. Such is the case with the project in the Spruce Mountain area of Elko, County, Nevada. First Choice Tree Service of Las Vegas is working in partnership with The Nevada Department of Wildlife to remove Pinyon and Juniper trees to improve the habitat of the native fauna in the area.
The major goal is to remove the trees with a diameter at breast height (DBH) of less than 12 inches. Removing these will improve deer winter range and sage-grouse nesting and brood rearing habitat.
"These trees are growing near or right in the sagebrush and mountain brush vegetation, causing less than optimum conditions," says Tony Valenti, First Choice Tree Service owner. "It is vital that we remove these trees to re-establish sagebrush habitat for these animals."
First Choice Tree Service will work through the fall season and into early winter, then resume in the spring of 2014 after the snow melts.
