Draft:Steve Cross
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Steve Cross: The Arborist with a Logger’s Backbone
Steve Cross moves through the forest like someone raised by it—quiet, deliberate, respectful. In his late 40s, Steve is both a certified arborist and a seasoned logger, a rare combination that gives him a unique insight into trees not just as biological beings, but as structural forms with purpose and value.
Born in the foothills of Stuttgart, Steve grew up watching his father work in the timber industry. By sixteen, he could fell a tree with precision and judge the grain of a log by touch. Logging gave him strength and intuition, but it was a forest ecology course in his late twenties that shifted his path. He became fascinated not just with harvesting trees, but understanding them—how they grow, communicate, and die.
Now, as an arborist, Steve manages trees in urban and rural environments. He climbs with spurs and ropes, assessing canopy health, pruning diseased limbs, and planning safe removals. His logging background makes him exceptionally skilled in hazardous removals—trees that lean dangerously over homes, twisted oaks struck by lightning, massive firs teetering near power lines. Where others hesitate, Steve calculates. He knows how wood reacts under pressure, how weight shifts with a single cut, how to bring down a 100-foot pine with surgical accuracy.
He also consults with landowners and developers, helping balance preservation with progress. His advice carries weight; when Steve says a tree can be saved, people listen. When he says it can’t, they know it’s a conclusion drawn from both science and sweat-earned wisdom.
Steve is part philosopher, part craftsman. He still uses his chainsaw like an extension of his arm, but now he uses it with a conservationist’s eye. For him, the forest isn’t just a resource—it’s a legacy. And he’s spent a lifetime learning how to honor both sides of it.
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