Tree Priorities
Tree Services · Key West, FL
About
RealReviews profileTree Priorities is a Key West forestry-consulting practice at 1310 Olivia Street, owned and operated by Ed Cunningham. Its website publishes 305-295-7800, appointment-based hours, an ISA-certified arborist claim, utility-vegetation-management specialization, and 40 years of professional experience. The model is most useful when a property owner needs diagnosis, preservation options, a removal opinion, utility or municipal expertise, or an independent scope when comparing options a production crew. The site does not establish a full removal, crane, stump, hauling, emergency, or landscape-restoration operation, so advice and execution should be contracted separately unless the exact production resources are documented.
Tree Priorities: what to know
RealReviews editorial researchTree Priorities is the strongest documented first call in this local set when the main question is what should happen to a tree rather than who can cut it fastest. The official identity, named owner, consulting focus, ISA claim, and utility-vegetation background support assessments, second opinions, preservation decisions, neighbor-sensitive questions, and bid-scope development. That value is different from a tree-removal crew. Ask for a written deliverable naming the species, condition, defects, targets, options, urgency, recommended scope, photographs, and credential number; then decide whether production work should be bid independently.
Strongest fit
- Independent assessment before an expensive or irreversible removal
- Tree preservation, condition, root-zone, and risk questions
- Utility-vegetation, municipal, and homeowner consulting
- A written scope that multiple production crews can price
Verify before booking Tree Priorities
- The official surface does not establish a full production crew
- ISA status should be confirmed by named credential number
- Emergency response, crane, stump, and hauling capacity are not published
- Define whether the deliverable is verbal advice, a letter, a report, or permit support
Identity and operating model
Tree Priorities identifies itself as a Key West-based forestry-consulting company owned and operated by Ed Cunningham. The official contact page publishes 1310 Olivia Street, Key West, 305-295-7800, and service by appointment. It describes Cunningham as an ISA Certified Arborist and utility-vegetation-management specialist with 40 years of professional experience.
Those are operator-published claims and should be verified for a material assignment. Ask for the current ISA credential number, the legal entity issuing the report, insurance appropriate to consulting and any field work, and the person who will inspect the property. Match the report author, invoice, and permit representative rather than relying on a business name alone.
When consulting is more valuable than a removal quote
Use a consulting arborist when a high-value tree may be saved, contractors disagree, the recommended removal is expensive, roots or structural defects are uncertain, a neighbor or association is involved, or a permit decision needs defensible evidence. An assessor who is not bidding the removal can describe options without tying the diagnosis to the highest-value production scope.
Require species, dimensions, condition, targets at risk, visible defects, root-zone conditions, limitations of a visual inspection, photographs, treatment or pruning alternatives, removal basis when applicable, urgency, monitoring, and a scope that another company can execute. If advanced testing is recommended, identify the method, cost, limitation, and decision it is expected to change.
Key West permit and utility decisions
Key West Urban Forestry uses a tree permit application for removal, trimming, and transplant evaluation and distinguishes several pruning and removal classifications. Ask whether Tree Priorities will only advise, prepare supporting material, mark a scope, submit or represent the owner, attend a Tree Commission meeting, respond to conditions, or verify completed work. Each is a different deliverable.
For trees near utilities, establish whether the question is private-property pruning, utility vegetation management, energized-line clearance, or coordination with the utility. An arborist opinion does not authorize an ordinary crew to enter an electrical hazard. Keep people away from a tree contacting energized lines and use emergency and utility channels.
Compare the report, not a generic consultation fee
Before booking, request the visit length, records reviewed, number of trees, travel, written format, photographs, turnaround, follow-up, permit support, meeting attendance, and whether the fee is credited or connected to later work. A low consultation fee with no written conclusion may not be comparable to a report that supports a permit and competitive bids.
At delivery, check that every tree is unambiguously identified and every recommendation has a reason, priority, scope, and next action. Send the same report to production bidders. If the consultant also offers or refers execution, disclose that relationship and keep diagnosis, referral, and production prices separate.
Your file for Tree Priorities
- Confirm the exact property and number of trees.
- Request the named arborist and current credential number.
- Define verbal advice versus written report.
- List permit, meeting, utility, and follow-up tasks.
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