Eleven years of Albuquerque trees
Remi started Roque Tree Service in 2015 with one truck and a set of tools, taking on whatever tree work he could. Eleven years later the company still works out of Southeast Albuquerque, but the truck has become a boom truck, a chipper and the rest of the machines a real tree operation needs to finish a job in one visit instead of three. Behind that are over 1,000 projects completed and over 1,000 customers served across the metro. It is still 100% family owned, and 100% of those jobs were done by our own crews.
What this city asks of a tree crew
Albuquerque is a high-desert town with a planted forest. Outside the bosque, almost nothing standing in a yard here arrived on its own: the Siberian elms went in during the Dust Bowl years and the decades after, the fruitless mulberries, green ash and globe willows came with the subdivisions of the 1950s through the 1980s, and nearly every one of them lives on a hose or a drip emitter in a city that averages under nine inches of rain a year. That first generation is now at hazard size — over roofs, over alleys, over PNM lines — and the 1994 Pollen Control Ordinance means a dead mulberry or elm does not get replaced with the same species. Add a wind season that runs March through May, monsoon outflow winds from mid-June to mid-September, and the driest stretch on record in 2025 and 2026, and you get a city where tree work is not landscaping. It is maintenance on aging, stressed, irrigation-dependent trees standing over things people cannot afford to lose.
What the equipment changed
Hand tools and a pickup will get a tree down. What they will not do is lift a saw over a 60-foot elm on a lot where the only access is a five-foot side gate, or turn a day's worth of cottonwood limbs into an empty driveway before dark. The boom truck reaches over the house from the ground instead of sending weight down through a canopy somebody is standing in. The chipper keeps the brush pile from getting ahead of the crew, so the yard is finished when the work is finished. Growing into that equipment is the difference between telling a homeowner "we can look at it next month" and saying yes to the tree that is actually worrying them.
Who shows up, and what backs them
Roque Tree Service LLC is licensed under NM license #L1313927408, bonded and insured. Those are not decorations for a website. When sections of a dead elm are coming down over a garage, they are the only thing standing between a bad afternoon and your homeowner's policy. Ask us for the paperwork and you get it — and ask the other bidders for theirs too, because in this trade the lowest number on the driveway is usually the one with nothing behind it.
How working with us actually goes
Every job starts with a free written estimate, requested through the Get Free Estimate form on this site, after somebody has looked at the tree. We read the tree, what sits under it and how the equipment reaches it, then put the price on paper. Emergencies run through the same form: emergency service is 24/7, and we head out within about an hour, depending on distance. If a limb is in a power line, PNM comes first through its own outage channels — the utility owns that span until it is de-energized — and 911 comes first if anybody is hurt.
Home base is Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, and the same crews run north into Sandoval County for Rio Rancho, Corrales, the town of Bernalillo and Placitas, south into Valencia County for Los Lunas, Belen and Bosque Farms, and east over the mountain to Moriarty. If you have a tree that needs a look, send us the details and we will come read it.