Tree Service in Falcon Heights, MN

Tree Service in Falcon Heights covers a small area with a lot of history. The city spans about 2.2 square miles, and roughly two-thirds of that is public land, mainly the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus and the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. The rest is neighborhoods. The first house in the Faulkner-developed part of town went up in 1937, and residents chose to incorporate as a village in 1949 rather than be annexed by Roseville or Saint Paul. At the 2020 census there were 2,336 housing units. That is a small number of yards, but many of them hold trees that are eighty years old or more.

One of the first places EAB showed up

Emerald ash borer was confirmed in Falcon Heights in 2009, the same year it was first found in Saint Paul. Falcon Heights borders the South Saint Anthony Park neighborhood, where the state's first infestation turned up. That makes this one of the longest-infested places in Minnesota. Any untreated ash still standing on a private lot here is very likely dead or close to it, and a dead ash that has stood for years is a real hazard for a house, a car or someone walking under it.

Boulevard trees belong to the city

Falcon Heights plants and maintains boulevard trees in the right-of-way. When residents request one, they sign that they do not own it. Public Works handles trimming and upkeep, and residents water it. Residents are not allowed to remove or harm a boulevard tree, and anyone who does can be charged the full cost of the tree plus labor. New boulevard plantings approved now are scheduled for spring 2027, with the city focusing on priority zones identified in its 2024 ground cover study. The species list includes serviceberry, swamp white oak, Dutch elm disease-resistant elm, hackberry, blue beech, shagbark hickory and chokecherry. If one of our jobs is near a boulevard tree, we protect it, and anything that needs doing to the boulevard tree itself goes to the city.

The kind of work we do here

Older Falcon Heights homes often have large elms, oaks, silver maples and spruce, many planted when the neighborhoods were new. Our common jobs:

• Removing long-dead ash, often from a lift because the wood is too brittle to climb
• Reducing the weight of old silver maple limbs over roofs and garages
• Raising the canopy of spruce and other evergreens crowding sidewalks and drives
• Grinding old stumps left from earlier removals
• Cleaning up after storms

Close quarters

Many yards here are compact, and many homes have detached garages and overhead service lines. We plan most removals as sectional work: limbs and trunk sections cut and lowered on ropes into a cleared landing area. We will tell you what we need moved before the crew arrives.

Talk to us

Call (651) 374-8562 or use the form, and we will set up a time to look at the tree and give you a written estimate. Get a free estimate