Greentree Consulting Arborist Disclosure Statement
Randy Cyr of Greentree is the Upstate’s 1st International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Board Certified Master Arborist, and our 1st American Society of Consulting Arborists Academy graduate. Since 1996, Randy has performed hundreds of thousands of successful ISA Tree Risk Assessments (TRA), and health diagnoses, which has likely resulted in the preservation of over 1 million trees that might otherwise have died, failed, or cut down by tree removal services.
During the Great Ice Storm of 2004 – when much of the Upstate looked like a war zone – of our tens of thousands of TRA clients, only one was found to have any significant property damage. During Hurricane Helena (2024), no property damage was found. Our record is unmatched in the Tri-State. TRA can be an effective tool in the hands of an owner/manager. We are here to serve you!
As a service to our community, and in the interest of preserving our beautiful Upstate, Randy provides a verbal, Level 1 Limited Visual Assessment (identifying obvious distant tree defects) & Level 2 Basic Assessment (closer visual inspection, often involving expert percussion hammer sounding) & diagnosis, at his own cost.
Trees pose a certain degree of hazard and risk from breakage, failure, uprooting or other causes and conditions. Through his analysis, and by expressing his observations, conclusions & recommendations, Randy attempts to minimize or reduce hazardous conditions that may be associated with trees. Owners may choose to accept or disregard his recommendations or seek additional advice.
Arborists cannot detect or anticipate every condition that could possibly lead to structural failure or death of trees. Trees are living organisms, as well as dynamic structures, which die & fail in ways we do not fully understand. Structural defects and signs of pests may remain hidden within trees, under vines or below ground. Risk Assessors are not required to perform a higher level of assessment or assess trees other than what are specified by owners (ANSI A300 92.5 & 6).
Conversely, Randy Cyr and Greentree cannot ensure or guarantee that a tree will remain safe or healthy under all circumstances, or for a specified period. Likewise, remedial treatments, like any medicine, cannot be guaranteed.
No matter how thorough a Risk Assessor may be in their inspection, it is the tree owner/manager who assumes all risks as the Risk Manager and must decide if more testing is needed, further opinion sought, or actions of abatement taken.
Trees can be managed, but they cannot be controlled. To live near trees is to accept some degree of risk. Risk Managers should strive to strike a good balance between the benefits trees provide and the risk they pose. The only way to eliminate all risk is to eliminate all trees. And that would be a bleak existence.
If you have been satisfied with our service, please leave us a Google, Yelp, BBB, Angi or Facebook review. This will help us to help others! With our new nonprofit, The Green Line (2023), we hope to save millions of trees across our great nation.
