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Spruce Pruning: Remove Dead Interior, Keep Lower Limbs

Lower Limbs Provide Structural Support

50-ft spruce with dead interior branches and limbs to ground. Remove dead interior wood. Do NOT limb up—lower branches lock together to support snow load. Removing them causes upper limb failure.

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