Chad Clark landscape contractor

09/26/2026

Baskett slough Polk County

09/26/2026

Baskett slough Polk County oregon

09/19/2026

Little fir job. Foggy fall morning . Birthday job because I'm happiest at work

09/05/2026

Isa certified arborist with over 20 years experience .
Honest dependable service.
Free estimates
References available
Local to Polk County Oregon

09/04/2026

free estimates on all hazard removals

Send a message to learn more

09/04/2026

now that's its rainy again in fall here are hazard signs to watch out for,

if you see dime sized honey color mushrooms around or inside dripline (root rot )

if the soil on one side of the tree becomes squishy is depressed or raised up (soil or root/ root plate failure)

if you see standing water inside of the dripline
( construction / drainage maybe changed the soil chemistry in that area)

if the main trunk /bole of the tree shifts you should notice it, if its severe damage. wet over waterlogged clay soils and wind create problems

, its good to take pictures of your trees so you have a measure to check against.
trees do not need to grow straight up,
phototropism is the sunlight directing their growth habit

, its perfectly normal for huge oaks and maples to have a sw lean, sometimes its nothing short of a miracle if you look at white oaks the old mature ones you should know what I mean

what ever you feed the lawn is what the tree absorbed /adsorbed and yes w**d and feed will kill true cedars, be cautious of granular herbicides and even round up under the dripline. these rains will not be the cause just the gas the fire needs, trees take along time to die usually 5 years after you think,
valuable specimens are lost to poor landscape management and herbicide applications, do not use moss out, do not use casoron, it only will cost you much more in the long run a healthy lawn does not require expensive chemicals,

Send a message to learn more

06/08/2026

Grafted brach on 100 plus year old silver maple . In most cases these trees fall and split apart and have included bark every where . Because of this location on the corner of a historical building on wou campus and the 150 year old indicators of the other trees in this strip I think they routinely pruned this tree.its in amazing shape. There are many 8 to 12 inch cuts (limb removals)to be found along main scaffold limb structure No verticilium to be seen and a huge grafted limb. I estimate a 120 ft crown 80 ft tall . 120 in dbh. Proving silver maples if given space time water care and no disturbance can be a longterm Tree. Contrary to most I have seen in Southern oregon where they become extremely hazardous

06/04/2026

35% of the World's Wetlands Have Been Lost Since 1970. The Beaver — the Animal That Creates and Maintains Wetland Ecosystems — Was Eliminated From Most of Europe and 90% of North America by the 19th Century. The Ecosystems Left With Them.

Drain the beaver. The wetland goes. The wetland goes — and 35 species go with it.

The North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) and the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) are the world's second-largest rodent (after the Capybara) and the only non-human animal that substantially modifies its own habitat to create the environment it needs — a behaviour called ecosystem engineering.

A beaver dam transforms a stream section into a pond. The pond:
— Raises the water table of surrounding land, maintaining moisture in adjacent meadows and forest during dry periods
— Creates standing water habitat for amphibians, fish (beaver ponds are among the most productive freshwater fish nursery habitats in both North America and Europe), birds, and invertebrates
— Traps sediment and nutrients from upstream, reducing downstream silting
— Slows flash flood events by holding water in ponds upstream

The North American Beaver was reduced from an estimated 60–400 million individuals to approximately 100,000 by the 1900s through the fur trade. The Eurasian Beaver: reduced to fewer than 1,200 individuals in isolated fragments by the early 20th century from hunting for fur, castoreum (a gland secretion), and perceived agricultural conflict.

When the beavers went: the wetlands they maintained degraded. Streams returned to faster-flowing, drier channels. The water table dropped. The amphibian populations that depended on beaver ponds collapsed.

Reintroduction results: where beavers have been reintroduced in Britain (River Otter, Devon; River Tay, Scotland) and the US, documented recovery of amphibian populations, fish communities, and water table levels within 5–10 years.

When removing one animal can collapse a wetland ecosystem — and reintroducing that animal can restore it within a decade — does that change how we categorise the beaver: as a rodent, or as infrastructure?

06/02/2026

Emerald ash borer is here in the Pacific Northwest, and is not going to subside. If you have any green ash in your yard, you must either treat it or consider it temporary. As the Emerald ash borer is 100% effective in killing all native Northwest fraxinus, super important. If you have any ash trees in your yard, and you cut them down, do not move them, burn them where they are, do not move any firewood, burn it where you buy it.

05/05/2026

Pro tip : 1 dead rabbit or chicken planted 6 inches below your plant will quadruple its yield. (Roadkill or waste, do not kill a perfectly good rabbit or chicken). This time of year is magical and this rule is good for 2 weeks