Whether it's removing a tree from your home during a storm or pruning a tree to promote healthy growth, Action Tree Service helps our community in Birmingham, AL with professional tree care. Our certified arborist with 45 years of experience and our highly experienced crew deliver exceptional work for our residential and commercial customers. They make sure your trees stay healthy and they remove dead or dying ones to keep your property safe and beautiful. They even remove storm-damaged trees when a storm breaks, tarp the area the tree fell, and then finishes the job when the storm subsides.
About 150 million years ago, a genus of evergreen trees was thought to be extinct and was only known due to fossil records. Amazingly, the same species was discovered in 1994 in Australia and is now called Wollemia.
The world’s tallest tree is the Hyperion, a coastal redwood that measures 380 feet tall. It was discovered in 2006 at the Redwood National and State Parks, although the precise location of the tree was kept secret for its own protection.
In 2012, Floridian Sarah Barnes accidentally burned the fifth-oldest tree in the world – a 3,500-year-old cypress named The Senator – by smoking under the tree’s hollow. For this, she was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
We all know that trees clean the air, but did you know they clean the soil too? Studies show that one sugar maple can remove 5,200 mg of lead, 140 mg of chromium, and 60 mg of cadmium from the soil each year.
While trees are valuable to the environment, they can pose safety hazards as well. An arborist's job is to ensure that trees will not damage property or cause accidents to humans and animals.