Tri-City Tree Doctor and United Tree Service
Our 78th Year of Providing HIGH QUALITY TREE CARE
UNITED TREE SERVICE (UTS) was established in 1946 by Marion L. Sutton. Upon his death in 1986, the business was taken over by his son, John Sutton. For the first 20 years of its existence, the company was a full service tree company, doing all types of tree service and landscaping. In the mid-1960’s, the landscaping, tree trimming and tree removal parts of the business were discontinued. Since that time, UTS has concentrated on providing high quality tree health care, including diagnostic services and treatments for pest and disease control, fertilization, and tree surgery.
UTS serves primarily Shiawassee, Livingston, and Genesee counties.
Since April of 2016, UTS no longer does spraying and deep root fertilizing, but continues with diagnostic, injection, and tree surgery services.
UTS also does deer protection applications.
John is an ISA Certified Arborist.
UTS maintains professional membership in the International Society of Arboriculture(ISA) and ISA Michigan.
TRI-CITY TREE DOCTOR was established in 1999 as a branch of UTS by M. David Sutton, another son of M. L. Sutton. Dave is the arborist who managed this branch until it was sold to Jonathan Getzinger in 2024.
Tri-City Tree Doctor serves Midland, Bay, and Saginaw counties, as well as adjacent counties in mid-Michigan and some distant counties that require specialized services.
David has been a certified arborist for many years and became a Board Certified Master Arborist (BCMA) in 2005. As of 2022 there are only 22 BCMAs in the state of Michigan out of 784 total certified arborists.
As of July of 2021, Certified Arborist Jonathan Getzinger joined the company. He purchased the company in 2024 and soon became a BCMA as of October 14, 2024.
Tri-City Tree Doctor also maintains professional membership in ISA, ISA Michigan, and the Midland and Sanford Chambers of Commerce.
OUR MISSION AND OUR PROMISE TO YOU, OUR CUSTOMER:
WE WILL
1. Provide high quality tree care in a timely fashion and at a reasonable price.
2. Advise you regarding measures that will help keep your landscape trees and shrubs healthy and beautiful.
3. Identify problems and recommend the best approach, whether it be a specific treatment or watchful waiting.
4. Minimize the use of chemicals by treating only when necessary, thus avoiding environmental risks and harm to beneficial insects and other natural enemies of the harmful pests.
5. Characterize the problems as to type- HARMFUL to the health of the tree, COSMETIC only, NUISANCE, or combinations of these- so that an informed decision can be made regarding action to be taken.
6. Try to apply treatments in a timely fashion, based on the problem at hand, weather conditions, and other considerations.
7. Always provide safety information, treatments applied, reason for treatment, time, date, applicator. Proper warning flags will be placed. We will try to inform you regarding expectations for the outcome of treatments.
