ABOUT US
We have to brag for a minute, we simply have the best of the best. Our entire Peterson Tree Care Team takes pride in doing their job and doing their job right. We simply have loyal, hard working, dedicated, and respectful crews that want to make sure that we are #1 Safe and #2 Quality through and through. We can’t say enough about our Team and the AMAZING people they are!
ABOUT THE OWNER
Derek is a proud husband and business partner to his wife, Skylar, and father to 4 amazing kids. Derek loves trees and the tree industry. He started working in the tree industry in 2002 and immediately knew that this was his calling. He loves working around people, being outdoors, and tackling different challenges with every tree and every obstacle in being a business owner. He recognized that to go far in the industry you not only needed skills in the field, but you needed to be educated in the classroom as well. Derek began working on getting his International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist certification along with Certified Tree Worker and completing the 2 Year courses with the Utah Community Forest Council. He kept continuing his education further becoming a certified Wildland Firefighter, Red Card holder, and Sawyer S12 and is still learning and growing to this day.
He has always known how important safety is as his Dad lost his life as a line-man and it has deeply impacted his attitude and respect for these dangerous lines of work. He has trimmed everywhere from city parks, to ski resorts, to high power transmission lines, to his own neighbor’s backyards.
Derek loves giving back to the community and has loved serving on the volunteer Fire Department in Elk Ridge. When Derek isn’t working, he enjoys time with his family, especially when they can escape to the mountains with a fishing pole in hand, snowboard on his feet, ready to hunt, or even on his dirt bike.
Derek is always looking for ways to improve the tree industry and even invented a carabiner tool that has become a staple product for him, and fellow arborists called the Transporter which is made by Rock Exotica. He didn’t like how the available carabiners held chainsaws and took it upon himself to make something better and safer. That is the same attitude that was the inspiration for beginning Peterson Tree Care in 2008. His family is so proud of him.
