AP Tree Service.

Most of what AP Tree Service handles is residential: taking down trees, shaping and thinning the ones that stay, grinding out stumps, and removing or trimming hedges and bushes. The company's site lists a crew of four. In 2023 the business took prime-contractor work for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, and in 2024 it pulled a Spokane County road obstruction permit for tree work along a road in Mead. The state lists Brandon Schlosser and Heith Linder as principals since 2019, the year the business was established. This is a good match for a homeowner with a tree that needs to come down, a yard full of stumps, or mature trees that want regular pruning and a look at their health. Public landowners needing tree work on state ground have used the company too. It is a tree and landscape outfit, so a job that also involves roof repair, structural work or heavy site development belongs with a different trade. Spokane's older neighborhoods carry a lot of big, aging trees planted decades ago, often maples, elms and ponderosa pines that now hang over roofs, power lines and sidewalks. Newer subdivisions north toward Colbert and Mead tend to have younger plantings and native pines left from the original lot. Each calls for different work: older trees usually need careful reduction or removal close to houses, while younger ones benefit from early structural pruning. Ice storms and wind events here make it worth having limbs over the house checked before winter.