ACR HAS CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH TREES AT END OF RWY. DISTURBED SOME TREE BRANCHES.

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DURING INITIAL TKOF ROLL ON RWY 28; BECAUSE OF THE HUMP HALF-WAY DOWN THE RWY; THE DEP END OF THE RWY WAS NOT VISIBLE. AS THE TKOF ROLL PROGRESSED; AND THE DEP END OF THE RWY CAME IN TO VIEW; AN AREA FILLED WITH TREES SOME DISTANCE FROM THE END OF THE RWY ALSO CAME INTO VIEW. ROTATION AND LIFTOFF WAS NORMAL BUT THE VERT SEPARATION FROM THE TREES SEEMED LESS THAN NORMAL; ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NOT THE SLIGHTEST CONCERN BY ME; OR THE OTHER CREW MEMBERS; THAT THE TKOF AND CLBOUT WAS ANYTHING OTHER THAN NORMAL. SINCE NONE OF US HAD A GREAT DEAL OF FAMILIARITY WITH RWY 28 DEPS; WE REMARKED THAT THE VERTICAL SEPARATION FROM THE TREES SEEMED TO BE LESS THAN WE WERE USED TO AT OTHER ARPTS AND OTHER RWYS; ALTHOUGH WE ALL FELT THAT THE VERT SEPARATION WAS MORE THAN ADEQUATE. APPARENTLY A RPT FROM A SECURITY GUARD AT THE ARPT STATED THAT A TREE BRANCH OR BRANCHES WERE BLOWN BY OUR JET BLAST. NO MENTION OF ANYTHING ABNORMAL OR UNUSUAL WAS MADE TO US BY THE TWR; AND THE RPT CAME AS A TOTAL SURPRISE TO ME. PERHAPS THE TREES ARE TALLER THAN PUBLISHED ON OUR ARPT T-PAGE AND SHOULD BE MEASURED.