Aurora, Denver arborists clear tree debris following storm | Aurora [Video]

As Denver and Aurora residents start to recover from Thursday’s snowstorm that dumped about a foot of snow or more on the front range — clearing cars, shoveling driveways and going back to work and school — the cities’ arborists are hard at work clearing tree debris. 

Aurora forestry staff called this week’s snow storm a “small” event compared to previous years, a feat they attribute to hard mitigation work. 

Denver’s city forester said the storm left a wave of damage in its wake that could take the city a month or so to clean up from.

Adrian Camacho, Aurora’s superintendent of forestry, said little of the storm’s damage affected public trees. This, in large part, has to do with the mitigation work their forestry team does before storms hit, he said. 

“Our forestry department has pruned every single tree in the entire city at least once over the last …