With all the wet and heavy snowfall that Moose Jaw experienced over the weekend, some residents reported broken branches and even downed trees. 

Sarah Regent, parks gardener for the City of Moose Jaw said the damage is due to the fact that many trees still have most of their leaves attached, which can catch a lot of the snow. 

"It's really tough to do much about this kind of wet heavy snow when the trees are still for the most part in full leaf, it is a lot of weight on them. If you have younger trees that are bent, but not broken, or smaller branches, it is a good idea to kind of knock that snow off, help take the stress off the limbs. Other than that, it's pretty much just damage control at this point."

With more snow in the forecast later this week, Regent shared some advice.

"Anything that's damaged you want to trim off, and even just giving it a good shake to help get that snow off those leaves is going to help a lot, and it's going to help that tree bounce back, because the less time that the weight's on there, the less chance you have of it actually breaking off."

"If it is on the City's property, like in a park or a boulevard," Regent continued, "you can phone the City. We do have crews out cleaning up all the storm damage. On private property, it's a good idea to, at the very least, make sure you cut branches down from the canopy so that they're safely on the ground and then you can wait until the weather's a little bit nicer later in the week to clean it all up."

Regent said that while the snow might stress your trees out a bit, there's a very small chance that any permanent damage will be done.