Leaving Footprints (title change) edit

[dukealien]

Heavy Footprint Stomp  tried to find a payoff for the title and failed

To undertake a garden dockside's ill-  to avoid the clumsy and confusing line break location, a simple "dig" vice "undertake" and break at the comma
advised, the poisoned planks are bound to leach  and then, to catch back up to the meter, "its poison-treated planks"
preservatives that taint surrounding soil.
The alliums for April’s flowers' sake, insert "their" before "April's" to fill the meter
the daffodils and hyacinths are fine
but vegetables would drink up arsenic.  good - "drink" is better than "soak" or "suck".  Slight hitch with "vegetables" as "veg'tables" but OK
Attached by hollow stems to muddy roots  a comma at the end here
proliferating lily pads provide
a stage for turtles, frogs and dragonflies;  good - tempted to a colon here, but you mean all the critters to be included in next 3 lines so stet
they multiply encouraged by the gush  comma after "multiply" 
of runoff drained from winter salted roads,  hyphen after "winter" to make "winter-salted"
the heralds of the choking weeds to come.  problem:  nothing up to now heralds weeds except, maybe, the field flowers.

Our hilly roads are named for trees and groves,  you may have to come back to this otherwise good line when untangling the next two
for coves and inlets nestled under old-
growth canopies, the interlocking boughs  this line and the last are problematic, see below
suspended over cabins built below. suggestion only - "beneath" vice "below"
The yellow poplars (nicknamed tulip trees)  
bear springtime flowers large as tangerines  suggestion:  just "big"
with golden petals orange at their base,
the blooms on branches high above our view  suggest "their" for "the" here, and "eyes" or "gaze" for "view"
until dislodged by squirrels, landing fully formed.  "land" vice "landing" for sense and meter
Their trunks are wider than my arms can reach  suggest "The" vice "Their" here to avoid reader applying this next to the tulip trees
around, two hundred year old hickories  or reorganize the sequence
and oaks dispense their bounty every fall.  could capitalize "Fall"
They lean their limbs out towards the sparkling lake  could fix the meter (requiring "twords") here with "They stretch" and eliminate "out"
attempting to absorb reflected sun
but when they threaten rooftops underneath
they're chainsawed down, transformed to firewood.  suggest "becoming" vice "transformed to"

We navigate the still clear spring-fed lake  suggest comma after "still"
and ask each other: Wonder where the rich  good line break
folk are today; we know our luck is prime
but carve our precious assets to our whims
and chip away at what we value most.   "Chip," indeed - no major nature-damage is mentioned.  Title needs to be dialed back from Godzilla to hiking-boot tracks... unless the title is cleverly setting the reader up with the thought that it's not really a "stomp" at all.

In intensive critique, please don't take all the above comments as forcefully as their telegraphic wording implies.  Also in intensive, fear of over-detailed suggestions is assuaged.  Don't be limited, of course. 

The first three lines of your second stanza (really just the second and third) are a bit of a jumble.  I suggest separating the elements and rearranging them until, first, the hyphen is not required and, second, the picture develops in a desired order.  Including the first line in the rearranging process may help.

Overall, this is a good concept, though the idea on which it's hung (man's footprint in nature) gets a little lost among the well-drawn foliage.  Either more examples, or a less strong title and closing could harmonize.