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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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(a week ago)

Yesterday, Hector, Nate, Randy, and Manuel (Manny) serviced 5 trees on our property here in Holladay, Utah. Atlas Tree Service (now Save A Tree) have always done a great job keeping our trees in top shape. They did a great job cleaning up all the branches and leaves too. Thanks guys!

Candace Cady

Candace Cady

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(a week ago)

I contacted SavATree about two trees beside my home which had roots coming to the surface and beginning to lift my sidewalks and a retaining wall. Frank came out to look at them and assess what could be done, if anything, to save the trees. Unfortunately, he discovered a crack down the trunk of on of the trees that was hanging over both my home and the sidewalk/street,. Frank said it needed to...

Della Schults

Della Schults

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(2 weeks ago)

I am so fortunate to have found SavATree for assessing the need to trim and/cut down my two trees. From the moment of first contact through the end of the job, it was a pleasure. The Team was delightful, efficient and professional. Thank you!

Bonnie Aguda

Bonnie Aguda

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(a week ago)

I contracted with SavATree (Exeter) this year to take down fifteen trees and to do monthly lawn treatments. Kendra was fantastic to deal with. She took care of scheduling, putting everything together, explaining the billing process and followed up when everything was done.. Ashley came out to the house, walked the property with me, made some great suggestions and handled the quotes. The...

Edward St. Clair

Edward St. Clair

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(2 weeks ago)

The team arrived on time, carefully arranged the truck for the over garage lift for cutting back branches encroaching on garage. They cleaned up high maple branches of neighbors’ large trees. They trimmed dead branches off of a diseased apple tree. Branches were removed from the yard.. The arborist was very knowledgeable..

Donna

Donna

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(2 weeks ago)

The team did extensive work on our property. They went up on a crawler to trim back a huge sugar maple which was unbelievable to see. We also have a large willow that needed to be cut back. They trimmed it back significantly and preserved the beautiful shape of the tree. They completely cleaned up and fixed any tread marks caused by the crawler machine. I am very happy with their work and...

Kathleen Alice

Kathleen Alice

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(2 weeks ago)

Gage and his crew were fantastic. They kept me informed of their arrival time. They were friendly and professional. They did a perfect job trimming the trees. They were really conscientious about protecting my property from damage. And they cleaned everything up really well—left the yard pristine. Absolutely a perfect experience with these guys.

Brian Burke

Brian Burke

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(2 weeks ago)

Excellent workmanship from the equipment and the crew that was here. The arrived ay 8:00 AM and were done taking out three large trees, and trimming branches of a huge white ash that they have been treating it every other year to stop the beetles that have been destroying ash trees throughout the U.S. I would recommend SavATree for any tree service you may need.

Bob Behent

Bob Behent

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(2 weeks ago)

I had a large tree removed. Tree was far away from the road, close to the pool and fence. They were able to skillfully remove the tree. When I returned home after work to see the result, you could not even tell they had completed the work other than the remaining stump. They did outstanding work! No damage to yard, property or debris trail of branches and leaves. They also cut back some...

Dennis Sullivan

Dennis Sullivan

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(2 weeks ago)

The work involved trimming limbs over house and trimming/reshaping small and medium size trees. The arborist, Adrian, was very knowledgeable and a communication style that created trust. Cost proposal was reasonable. The workmen, Franklin and Mario, took incredible care in their work and the results of their work were beautiful and exceeded our expectations. Everything was done efficiently and...

Doug Soffer

Doug Soffer