County seat: Lawrence
Tree Service in Douglas County
Our home county. Douglas County gets the fastest response and the most crew hours.
Free written estimates · Cleanup included · Monday to Friday, 8 to 5
Douglas County
Towns we cover in Douglas County
Each town has its own page with the local species, access notes, and permit guidance.
Lawrence
Home baseHome base
Old West Lawrence and the blocks around the university carry some of the oldest street trees in Douglas County, which means big silver maples and pin oaks growing within a few feet of century-old foundations and overhead service lines. Access is the constraint on most of these jobs, not the tree.
Tree service in Lawrence →Eudora
About 15 minutes east
Eudora sits in the Kaw river bottom, so cottonwood and sycamore grow fast and get big. Wet ground also means root plates let go in saturated soil before the trunk ever fails.
Tree service in Eudora →Baldwin City
About 25 minutes south
Older oaks around the Baker campus and the surrounding blocks are worth preserving, and usually can be. Most calls here start as removals and end as crown reductions once someone actually looks at the tree.
Tree service in Baldwin City →Lecompton
About 20 minutes northwest
River bluff properties along the Kaw with mature hardwoods on slopes. Steep access is common, which is what decides whether a job needs a crane or a climber.
Tree service in Lecompton →What we do
Tree work across Douglas County
Tree Removal
Taking down a tree safely when it is dead, dying, or growing somewhere it cannot stay.
Tree Trimming
Clearing limbs off roofs, driveways, and power drops, and thinning canopies before storm season.
Stump Grinding
Grinding the stump below grade so you can mow over it, replant, or lay sod.
Emergency Tree Removal
A tree is on the house, across the drive, or leaning on a line. Call, do not fill out a form.
Land Clearing
Clearing acreage of trees, brush, and cedar so the ground can be used.
Hazard Tree Evaluation
A written evaluation of whether a specific tree is likely to fail, and what to do about it.
Douglas County tree service questions
Which towns in Douglas County do you cover?
Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin City, and Lecompton, plus the unincorporated ground between them. This is our home county, so it gets the shortest response times and the most crew hours.
Are the tree rules the same across the county?
No, and the differences are real. Lawrence licenses tree trimmers through the City Clerk. Baldwin City licenses tree companies annually and bills owners for right-of-way tree work. Eudora sets clearance at seven feet over sidewalks. Lecompton asks owners to contact the governing body before removing a tree near a public area. Outside city limits, none of these apply.
Is there still an emerald ash borer quarantine here?
No. Kansas lifted its quarantine effective March 1, 2021, after the federal domestic quarantine was withdrawn in December 2020. There is no legal restriction now on moving ash wood within or out of the county. The biological reason not to move firewood has not changed.
Do I need a permit to burn brush on my acreage?
In unincorporated Douglas County you need to check the county burn hotline for current status and notify the Emergency Communications Center before starting, with fires over about five feet across at the base triggering that requirement. Some burns require a commissioners' permit. Inside a city, ask the city.
What is the most common Douglas County call?
It splits by geography. In Lawrence it is access-constrained removals and pruning around old street trees and overhead service. Around Eudora and Lecompton it is bottomland cottonwood and sycamore, plus root plate failures after wet weather. Around Baldwin City it is mature oak, and most of those calls end as reductions rather than removals.
Do you cover all of Douglas County?
Yes. We work Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin City, Lecompton and the ground between them. If your address is rural and not near any of those, call and we will tell you straight away whether it is in range.
What trees are we dealing with in Douglas County?
Mostly Silver maple, Pin oak, Bur oak, Hackberry, Green ash, American elm, Cottonwood, Sycamore, Black walnut, Osage orange, and eastern redcedar. Douglas County splits between old Lawrence neighborhoods with century-old street trees growing into utility lines, and river bottom ground around Eudora and Lecompton where cottonwood and sycamore get large fast. Two very different jobs, often in the same week.
How fast can you reach Douglas County in an emergency?
We work Monday to Friday. After a widespread wind or ice event every crew in the region books up within a day, so we move storm work ahead of scheduled jobs and triage by hazard, taking trees on structures and blocked access first. Call and we will tell you where you actually land in the queue.
Is the estimate free?
Yes, and you do not need to be home. We walk the property, take measurements, and send the written quote the same day.
What happens next
Three steps, and the first one takes 45 seconds
No sales visit, no pressure, and a written number before anyone touches a saw.
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We come look at it
We walk the property, check access, and write the quote on site. Free, and you do not need to be home. Tree removal, tree trimming, and stump grinding all get quoted that way.
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We do the work and clean up
Crew arrives in the window we quoted. Chips, limbs, and debris leave with us unless you want them kept. Storm jobs follow emergency tree removal first, then cleanup.
In a hurry? Call (785) 371-4859 and skip all three.
Clinton Lake changed the western half of the county
Clinton Lake was authorized under the Flood Control Act of 1962 and its dam was finished in 1975, impounding the Wakarusa River along with Rock Creek and Deer Creek. The reservoir covers roughly seven thousand acres with about eighty-five miles of shoreline, and it supplies drinking water to more than a hundred thousand people. Building it flooded the townsites of Belvoir, Bloomington, and Sigel.
For tree work, the shoreline is what matters. Lots around the lake sit on slopes with open water on one side, which produces trees with lopsided crowns loaded consistently from one direction, on ground where a truck often cannot reach the tree. Those jobs get quoted after somebody walks the lot and the access road, not from a description given over the phone.
Open burning in the unincorporated county
Douglas County allows open burning in unincorporated areas only in limited situations, and the process has two parts. First check current burn status through the county burn hotline, since conditions change with wind and drought. Then notify the county Emergency Communications Center before you light anything, either by phone or through the online form. Fires larger than about five feet across at the base trigger that notification requirement, and some burns need a permit from the Board of County Commissioners outright.
Somebody eighteen or older has to supervise the fire until it is out. Inside any city in the county, the city's rules apply instead, and they are not the same from town to town. For most residential jobs the whole question goes away if the material gets chipped, and the chips can stay on the property as mulch.
- Check burn status with the county hotline before planning anything
- Notify Emergency Communications before starting, phone or online
- Fires over roughly five feet across at the base require notification
- City limits mean city rules, which differ between Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin City, and Lecompton
Ash, and the quarantine that no longer exists
Emerald ash borer was confirmed in Douglas County in late September 2015, and K-State Research and Extension now counts confirmed infestations across a long list of northeast Kansas counties. What has changed is the regulation. The federal domestic quarantine was withdrawn at the end of 2020, and Kansas lifted its own quarantine effective March 1, 2021, redirecting effort toward survey, education, and biological control.
That means there is no longer a legal restriction on moving ash wood or firewood out of the county, which is worth understanding rather than celebrating, because moving infested firewood is precisely how the beetle covered this much ground. Burn the ash where you cut it. If you are hauling firewood to a cabin or a campsite, the responsible move is still to leave it home and buy local wood at the destination.
Douglas County at a glance
Douglas County splits between old Lawrence neighborhoods with century-old street trees growing into utility lines, and river bottom ground around Eudora and Lecompton where cottonwood and sycamore get large fast. Two very different jobs, often in the same week.
Tree service in Lawrence
Lawrence is home base and the county seat. Most Douglas County calls start on the Lawrence tree service page. Tree removal and tree trimming are the two jobs we quote most here.
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(785) 371-4859Coverage
Lawrence, Topeka, and everything between
We cover 14 towns across 5 counties. If your town is not pinned, call anyway. We are usually closer than you think.
- Home base
- 2229 Marvonne Rd
Lawrence, KS 66047 - Hours
- Mon to Fri