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Brown Hill Managing Emerald Ash Borer with Arborjet

In July, Emerald Ash Borer has been detected in one of the purple monitoring traps in Wyoming County. This brings the affected counties total to 20 in Pennsylvania.

Brown Hill is now applying a protective treatment of Tree-Age, applied with an Arborjet I.V. system to protect ash trees.

Typically, the Emerald Ash Borer beetles will kill an ash tree within three years of
the initial infestation. Adults are dark green, one-half inch in length and one-eighth
inch wide, and fly only from early May until September. Larvae spend the rest of
the year beneath the bark of ash trees. When they emerge as adults, they leave D-shaped holes in the bark about one-eighth inch wide.

Ft Belvior Project

Here are some pictures from a recent tree clearing project in Ft Belvior, Va. In Feburary of 2009 Brown Hill Tree Co. was called upon to complete the difficult job of clearing away many large trees for a construction project. After the construction of the Dewitt Army Hospital on the Fort Belvoir Army base located in Fort Belvoir Virginia, water run off from the new parking area was more than the existing streams could handle. A serious erosion issue was created. The job was difficult because equipment access was limited and historic trees had to be preserved. Thanks to the “we can do it!” attitute of Brown Hill Tree Co. president Jon Brown, special equipment was soon mobilized. The difficult job was completed on time so that the construction project could begin as scheduled. When compared to other bidders, Brown Hill Tree Co. was able to complete the job faster and at less cost to the prime contractor.

Storm Damaged Tree Removal in Mehoopany

Very careful removal of Maple tree!