Anderson Tree Service

About Anderson Tree Service

Anderson Island keeps its own clock, set by the one ferry crossing Balch Passage from Steilacoom, which means anything that blocks a driveway or a lane here stays blocked until someone deals with it directly. Anderson Tree Service works the island's fir and madrona stands, clearing what a winter storm knocks down across the gravel roads that wind between Oro Bay and the two small lakes at the island's center. A true snow is rare on this stretch of southern Puget Sound, but when it comes it tends to bring branches with it, ice-slicked limbs breaking loose from trees that don't usually carry that kind of weight. The crew clears roads and driveways the same day, because an island with one ferry landing can't afford to wait on a fallen limb the way a mainland town might. Afterward the quiet comes back fast, deer moving along the cleared lane again like nothing happened, which on Anderson Island is most of the point.