Expert Arborist Consulting
Specialized services for sustainable tree management in Tampa Bay development projects.
What is a Consulting Arborist?
Consulting arborists play a vital role in ensuring that trees are managed effectively during development projects. Their expertise helps balance ecological integrity with urban growth, providing solutions that are both sustainable and compliant.
Tree Expertise
Expert assessments ensure tree health and compliance throughout the development process.
Protection Plans
Tailored plans safeguard trees while meeting regulatory requirements for land development.
Unlocking Sustainable Development with Expert Consulting Arborist Services in Tampa Bay
Dark Moss has a Registered Consulting Arborist on staff who has provided tree-related opinions, designs, and specifications for large-scale development projects throughout the Tampa Bay region.
Seamless Integration of Arboricultural Insights
When assessing a tree, we recognize and research the local ordinances related to tree protection, tree removal, and tree replacement. We then process the objective tree assessment data into a relevant, actionable site plan to prioritize tree preservation at schematic site planning.
Our consulting arborists provide expert tree assessments, comprehensive pruning specifications, and detailed protection plans. Using AutoCAD Civil 3D, we ensure that arboricultural insights are seamlessly integrated into construction plan sets
Tree Inventories
We provide unique and comprehensive tree inventories tailored specifically for each permitting agency - adding new agencies to our database monthly.
Tree Protection Plans
Customized strategies to ensure compliance and protect valuable vegetation throughout the development process - all provided in CAD.
Selected Services Provided
Tree Inventories and Disposition Plans
Our regulatory Tree Inventories ensure compliance while safeguarding valuable trees during development.
We tailor or tree disposition plans and tables specifically for each municipality to reduce comments and shorten review timelines.
Tree Protection Plans
When tree preservation requires particular care in locating structures, we can prepare site-sensitive plans that incorporate the natural resources existing on the site. We can also design, document, and review tree preservation extents, fencing, and special design techniques.
Outdoor Advertising Vegetation Management
We prepare vegetation management plans for outdoor advertising signs per F.S. 479.106 or invasive species removal.
Utility Corridor Tree Protection
We can help identify and resolve subsurface, surface, and overhead utility conflicts in conceptual design
"Ricky Peterika has become Tampa's go-to arborist, tapped by real estate developers to figure out how to build $100 million-plus projects around 100-plus-year-old live oaks."