Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Building a dam Filling for a driveway

You may lose the trees that are closest to the road. They might live, they might die next year, they might die in 5-6 years. Trees don't like to have their roots covered with more soil than they were growing in, and they don't like to have the soil over their roots compacted. I have yet to find a reliable way to know if a tree that had soil compacted over it's roots will live or die.

If the crowns start to look thinner than the trees slightly deeper in the forest, take 'em down before they die completely. It's a lot easier to clean up the tops of the trees if the branches don't break into a million pieces when they hit the ground.