Texas • Arboriculture & Tree Risk
ISA Certified Arborist delivering credentialed tree risk assessment, oak wilt management, and prescription pruning across Texas. Expertise you can put in writing, and stand behind.
The Credentials
Anyone can own a chainsaw. These are the elite, independently tested credentials that let me assess risk, sign documentation, and be trusted on the high-liability work.
What I Do
The work where credentials actually matter. Risk, disease, and the decisions that protect property, people, and the canopy.
What you get
Every assessment is documented in a defensible written report: site conditions, a tree-by-tree inventory, individual condition and risk ratings, clear recommendations, and a certification signed under my ISA credentials. The kind of documentation insurers, HOAs, cities, and attorneys actually accept.
Plant Health Care
Most tree calls are reactive: something is already wrong. Plant Health Care is the opposite. It is proactive, year-round care that keeps a tree vigorous, so it resists Texas drought, heat, pests, and disease instead of declining toward the removal list. Think family doctor, not emergency room.
Urban trees fight compacted, nutrient-poor soil and lose the competition with turf grass. Deep root fertilization injects a slow-release, balanced feed plus beneficial soil biology under pressure, straight into the root zone below the grass, where the tree actually takes it up.
A soil-applied growth regulator (paclobutrazol) tells the tree to slow its top growth and redirect that energy into roots, defense, and stored reserves. For your tree, that means a thicker fine-root system and a tougher, more resilient tree. One application lasts about three years.
From the field
Plant Health Care also covers soil decompaction and biology, integrated pest management, chlorosis correction, and annual monitoring. Every program is built for the specific tree, species, and site, by a credentialed arborist.
Central Texas Permitting
I handle tree permits and development review across all of Central Texas, including Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander, Hutto, Dripping Springs, Bee Cave, and Lakeway. Every city has its own tree ordinance, and they are strict. I prepare and manage the full process so your removal, build, or site plan clears the first time.
Figures shown are the City of Austin's, the region's most detailed tree code. Other Central Texas cities set their own thresholds, and I handle each one.
Full preparation and management of the TORA process for removing or impacting regulated trees not tied to development, including impacts from utility issues, disease, or other conditions.
Any species 19 inches in diameter or greater is a Protected Tree requiring a permit to remove or impact. I handle the application end to end.
Heritage removal is extremely difficult and requires a special variance that is rarely granted. I build the case and the documentation to give it the best possible chance.
On private property the City regulates three classes: 8 to 18 inch, Protected, and Heritage. I confirm exactly which class your tree falls in before anything moves.
Permit applications to remove a tree that is dead, diseased, or posing imminent danger to people or property.
When a residential property with a regulated tree is developed, the tree review runs simultaneously with building plan review and the tree permit accompanies the building permit.
I handle the tree review process on multifamily properties and on projects that require a full Site Plan.
The CRZ is one foot of radius per inch of trunk diameter. Construction activity inside it requires protection fencing installed before work begins and maintained throughout.
Developers must submit tree surveys and mitigation strategies. I prepare both to City standards.
Tree preservation requirements are detailed in Section 3 of the Environmental Criteria Manual, which guides every preservation spec I write.
Interactive
Answer five quick questions about the tree you're worried about. This is a starting point, not a diagnosis, but it will tell you how soon you should get a qualified set of eyes on it.
Toggle Yes or No for each.
As you answer, I'll gauge how urgent a professional look is, based on the same signals a TRAQ assessment screens for.
Request a Consultation →This self-check is educational and does not assess, diagnose, or certify any tree. Tree risk and tree disease require an on-site evaluation by a qualified arborist. Suspected oak wilt or other reportable conditions should be confirmed through certified diagnostics.
About Sean
I'm an ISA Certified Arborist based in Texas, holding five of the industry's most demanding qualifications, including Tree Risk Assessment (TRAQ) and Texas Oak Wilt. That combination means I can do more than cut a tree: I can evaluate it, document it, and stand behind the recommendation.
Most tree calls don't need a specialist. The ones that do (a leaning oak over a roofline, a suspected disease, an insurance or city requirement) are exactly the ones where the wrong call gets expensive. That's the work I'm built for.
Recent Work
Credentials matter, and so does the work. Here is a recent job, start to finish.
Removing a big red oak next to a house is not about brute force. It is sectioned down piece by piece, rigged and lowered so nothing underneath is ever at risk. Start to finish, done right.
More projects added as we document jobs.
Get In Touch
Tell me what you're dealing with. A risk concern, a possible disease, or a job that needs a credentialed sign-off, and I'll tell you straight whether it needs a specialist.