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Emerald Ash Treatment

Protect your ash trees from this damaging pest.

Emerald Ash Borer

The emerald ash borer (EAB) was first discovered in the U.S. in the summer of 2002 in southeast Michigan. The EAB has since killed tens of millions of trees in the United States and so far has established itself in 26 states.

Signs of EAB Infestation

  • Excessive sprouting from base of tree
  • Thinning crown
  • Canopy dieback
  • Tiny D-shaped holes in the bark
  • Bark splitting
  • Increased woodpecker activity (they like to feed on beetle larvae)
  • “Ash Blonding” as woodpeckers remove the outer bark in their search for EAB larvae
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Benefits of Professional Tree Care

Reduce Risk

Reduce Risk

Trees are both assets and liabilities. Protect your property with expert tree care that mitigates risk, minimizes hazards, and ensures a safe environment for all to enjoy.

Adhere to Requirements

Adhere to Requirements

Meet safety and environmental requirements while enhancing the property’s aesthetic appeal. Our professional tree care solutions are tailored to each property's unique needs.

correct problems early

correct problems early

Address potential tree health issues before they escalate. Our proactive care services identify and correct problems early, saving you from costly damages and preserving your landscape’s beauty.

Restore Tree Health

Restore Tree Health

Restore your property’s trees to their full glory with precise pruning that promotes healthy growth, improves structure, and enhances the natural beauty of your landscape, ensuring vibrant, resilient trees.

Treat Diseases Quickly

Treat Diseases Quickly

Our specialized treatments help protect your trees from common and emerging diseases. Early intervention and ongoing care keep your trees healthy for a lush, thriving landscape year-round.

Benefits of Professional Tree Care

Reduce Risk

Reduce Risk

Trees are both assets and liabilities. Protect your property with expert tree care that mitigates risk, minimizes hazards, and ensures a safe environment for all to enjoy.

Adhere to Requirements

Adhere to Requirements

Meet safety and environmental requirements while enhancing the property’s aesthetic appeal. Our professional tree care solutions are tailored to each property's unique needs.

correct problems early

correct problems early

Address potential tree health issues before they escalate. Our proactive care services identify and correct problems early, saving you from costly damages and preserving your landscape’s beauty.

Restore Tree Health

Restore Tree Health

Restore your property’s trees to their full glory with precise pruning that promotes healthy growth, improves structure, and enhances the natural beauty of your landscape, ensuring vibrant, resilient trees.

Treat Diseases Quickly

Treat Diseases Quickly

Our specialized treatments help protect your trees from common and emerging diseases. Early intervention and ongoing care keep your trees healthy for a lush, thriving landscape year-round.

The Urgency: Assess Your Property and Take Action

When a tree is severely infested with emerald ash borer, treatment may be ineffective. A tree may be too severely compromised to save. That’s why we highly recommend utilizing preventive methods if you live in an at-risk area. SavATree can provide annual treatments to protect your beautiful ash trees against this highly destructive pest.

Tree damage from EAB progresses swiftly: without treatment, the tree usually dies within two to four years of initial infestation. Given the EAB’s aggression, many states have instituted quarantines of all EAB infestation areas in efforts to slow its spread.

Prevention. If you live in an at-risk area, we highly recommend utilizing preventive methods. SavATree can provide annual inoculation treatments to protect your ash trees against this highly destructive pest.

Treatment. The sooner EAB infestation is detected and treated, the greater your chances to save your trees and control EAB’s spread. Additionally, since the EAB beetle can travel from one tree to another, quick treatment of infested ashes can prevent its spread to healthy ash trees nearby.

Take-down. When a tree has advanced EAB infestation, the structural integrity of the tree is often too compromised to save — the wood cracks, the branches fail, and the base and roots of the tree become unsound. In such cases, the removal of the ash tree is the best option for the protection of nearby trees, plants, and structures, as well as humans and pets.

Though the decision to take down a tree is never an easy one for a property owner, waiting too long after detection of EAB infestation can significantly narrow the options for safe removal of the ash tree. Advanced decay of the tree may make climbing and rigging the tree too dangerous for the arborist to undertake. At that point, the only safe option for removal may be felling the tree, which, depending on the tree’s location on the property, may threaten other valuable trees and structures in its proximity.

The Benefits of an EAB Management Plan for Your Property

The best defense is a good offense. Call in your tree care professional to determine the presence and severity of an EAB infestation in your ash trees. Then you can work together to devise a comprehensive, reasonable, and multi-phased management plan that makes the most sense for you: which healthy trees can be treated to prevent EAB attack, which favorite trees with early infestation can be treated to save or extend their life, and which dead or decayed trees should be marked for removal. On this last point, creating an EAB management plan makes particular financial sense for owners with a large number of ashes on their property. Tree removal is expensive; a smart, multi-phase strategy can allow any necessary take-downs to occur over a number of years – a boon for your budgeting.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • As certified arborists, we provide expert, tailored care for your trees and greenery, using science-based solutions to meet your unique landscape needs.

  • Yes, our organic program uses OMRI-reviewed ingredients, and we customize programs with organic, traditional, or hybrid options to suit your landscape goals.

  • Yes, we provide customized landscape care, risk assessments, and consulting for commercial properties to enhance curb appeal, protect value, and ensure safety.

  • We’re reducing our carbon footprint through operational improvements and hybrid/organic programs, and our Consulting Group supports large-scale environmental projects at all levels. Our product selection is guided by agroscience and a three-tiered protocol to ensure environmental safety, efficacy, and cost. All our regulated ingredients are EPA-approved.

  • Yes. Our ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualified Consultants perform industry standard tree risk assessments. We follow all national safety standards (the ANSI A300 Part 9 standards, using the formula Probability x Consequences = Risk).

  • Yes. We offer plant health care services tailored to each unique property to properly support plant vigor, growth, and lifespan. Our arborists diagnose and treat insect and disease conditions to provide customized treatment plans for each unique species.

  • SavATree offers organic, traditional, and hybrid lawn care programs. Unlike other companies whose treatments are one-size-fits-all, we target our techniques and applications to the specific conditions of your grass and plants, the soil they’re growing in, and any other aspects that can impact the health of your turf.

  • SavATree is the leader in tree, shrub, and lawn care, with an award-winning team of ISA Certified Arborists. We tailor programs to enhance the safety and beauty of your property. A SavATree arborist will assess your landscape and provide a cost-effective, eco-friendly plan before our crews begin.

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Great company with very knowledgeable arborists who love plants! Wonderful to do business with. I had used our general landscaping business prior for tree and bush trimming and this is 3 heads above in skill. Would highly recommend to anyone who cares about their outdoor plantings!

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Another fantastic job by Monty's crew! Because of their previous tree maintenance, my trees survived a direct hurricane hit. This time they trimmed the dead branches and cleaned up the debris so the trees and yard looks better than ever!

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I have been using SaveATree for several years. They literally did save a tree for me; a pine tree that was dying and needed more than water to recover. Then they began pruning my trees after storm damage with professional results. The trees thrived. Now I am on a schedule for nutrition and disease control along with regular pruning. Colorado wind, hail, snow, altitude and soil has a profound...

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Worth every penny!! I had one tree removed, one trimmed and a bush with multiple things growing in it removed. They were very professional, good communication and my yard looks so much better!

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I am posting this for my mom in Boulder, CO: They have lit our 50 foot linden trees two years in a row. The pictures cannot do it justice. It’s absolutely beautiful. The staff is so helpful and kind. We cannot recommend them highly enough.

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Nick was an amazing arborist and unbelievable amount of knowledge. They did everything agreed upon in a timely manner and left my yard better than they found it with cleanup. Will absolutely use them again in the future. Thank you

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Ashley and her tree trimming crew, lead by Neil, did a great job working around the needs of our neighbors to gain road passage to/from their homes. They were responsive to our changing tree cutting needs, very professional and cost effective. We received quotes from numerous other tree services that were two to SIX times more expensive. Start your quote process with SavATree. You'll find...

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The crew was on time, courteous, and cleaned up afterwards. The tree was pruned to my satisfaction.

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