ISA Certified Arborist · Spokane, Washington
Holistic Pruners is the practice of Wakan Burrows — one arborist, every cut considered, from the root flare to the highest limb.
A tree is not a thing in your yard. It's a living system — roots working the soil, blossoms feeding the bees, a canopy full of birds and shade. Good tree care serves all of it.
Holistic Pruners is a one-arborist practice. Wakan climbs, prunes, and consults on every job himself — no rotating crews, no rushed work up high, no cut made without a reason.
Every recommendation starts with the tree's long-term health and ends with how it serves the whole landscape around it.
Wakan Burrows · ISA Certified Arborist
The Work
Most of what a tree needs isn't dramatic — it's careful, well-timed cuts that respect how the tree actually grows. Pruned for health, beauty, and fewer surprises in the next windstorm.
Large, medium, and small trees, pruned for long-term health, structure, and risk mitigation.
Structure and renewal pruning that keeps ornamentals graceful and fruit trees productive.
Patient, multi-season renovation for trees that have been topped or badly cut — rebuilding sound structure over time.
Cabling, bracing, and retrenchment pruning to keep mature and veteran trees standing safely for decades more.
From a gentle lift off the roofline to aggressive clearance — matched to the tree, not the easy cut.
The Work
Not every tree should come down — and not every tree can stay. When removal is the right call, it's made honestly and carried out with the same care as everything else.
For trees in decline, at the end of their lives, or endangering the people and structures around them — removed at the right time, for the right reasons.
A standing-trunk alternative to full removal — risk managed for you, habitat preserved for everything that needs standing wood to thrive.
A removed tree keeps giving. Firewood goes to people who can use it, chips go to feed garden soil, and good wood is set aside for art, woodworking, and whatever comes next.
A Holistic Option
The Arborist
In 2012, Wakan Burrows signed up for a tree-climbing course at the local community college — and never really came down. More than a decade in the canopy has shaped a simple conviction: tree care, done right, is equal parts science, aesthetics, skill, service, education — and love.
He came up the honest way — on the ground first, dragging brush for a large outfit, then six years as a subcontract climber for a small local company, pruning trees four days a week for their long-term health, beauty, safety, and function. In 2019 he earned his ISA certification, the benchmark credential in arboriculture, and he keeps it current through ongoing education in the field.
Holistic Pruners came in 2021, built around what the work itself had taught him: that good tree care has to account for the whole picture — the people who live with a tree, the wildlife that lives in it, and the soil it lives on. Every job is built on the same foundation: honesty, professionalism, and mutual respect, with the customer's and the trees' needs and safety at heart.
Beneath all of it is a profound appreciation for the natural world and all its living things — and a genuine eagerness to put that to work in the service of the long-term health, beauty, and function of your trees.
"Simply put: I love trees and tree work. More than a job, it's become a lifestyle and a passion."
Free estimates, honest advice, and a careful eye on every branch. Tell Wakan about your trees and he'll come take a look.
