Tree Removal in Lynden, WA

Lynden is farm country right up against the Canadian border, and that shapes almost every tree job here. Around town the land opens into berry fields and dairy ground, flat for miles, with the Nooksack running along the south side. A farmhouse out here usually has a few big trees close to the house and a windbreak row along one edge of the yard, planted decades ago to take the edge off exactly the weather that now threatens them.

That weather is the Fraser Valley outflow. In winter, cold air builds up in the interior of British Columbia and pours out through the Fraser Valley toward the coast. It comes from the northeast, it is often bitterly cold, and the north county farmland around Lynden takes it hard. There is not much between the border and a Lynden yard to slow it down. Tall conifers that grew up in a sheltered row lose a neighbour, and the rest of the row is suddenly carrying wind it never had to before.

Add saturated winter ground on the low fields and you get the typical Lynden failure: a tall fir or a windbreak tree tipping at the root during an outflow event, across a fence line, a barn roof or the road. In town, the older streets have mature yard trees, and the big conifers in places like Berthusen Park are a reminder of how tall the native timber here gets when it is left alone.