Last fall, my wife and I bought our first acreage, and this is the beginning of the first spring I have ever had to deal with a massive yard. (3.3 acres, with only 1 needing to be mowed every week.) ...

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms and some die from environmental stress or old age.