On the northeast shore
Clearlake Oaks sits on the northeast side of Clear Lake, about eight miles northwest of the city of Clearlake. The old town lies inland of Highway 20 in a broad canyon mouth, and many of its homes still show their roots as fishing cottages. Before 1935 the post office here went by the name Stubbs.
Small cottages, big oaks
The town is named for its oaks, and on a small cottage lot a mature oak can spread wider than the house it shades. Oaks are long lived and worth keeping, but heavy limbs reaching over a roof or a carport are a real risk in wind and wet snow. In most cases the answer is trimming, not removal: dead wood out, the heaviest limbs shortened, the canopy lifted off the roof.
When an oak is hollow at the base or already splitting, it has to come down. On a tight lot the crew does that from the spider lift, piece by piece. See tree removal. Oak makes good firewood, and you are welcome to keep it. Cut to the length your stove takes and stacked where you want it, it saves you a winter of buying wood. Sound oak trunks can also go to the mill for boards, carrying the tree the town is named for into a table or a shelf.
The night of the Sulphur Fire
The Sulphur Fire was first reported around 1:15 in the morning on October 9, 2017, near Sulphur Bank Road and the Elem Indian Colony, and evacuations reached across Clearlake Oaks before it pushed over Mount Baldy toward the city. Grass and brush on the hills behind town carry fire quickly. Before summer, defensible space work around your home is the practical step: low limbs cut up, brush cleared and chipped, dead trees taken out.
What R2 Does in Clearlake Oaks
- Tree Removal
- Tree Trimming
- Storm and Emergency Work
- Fire Safety Clearing
- Land Clearing and Grading
- Log and Debris Removal
- Milling and Custom Builds
- Wood Mulch and Compost
Nearby: Clearlake, Lucerne, Lower Lake.