Tree Care in Englewood, CO · Certified Arborist Since 2003
Ash treatment, removal, pruning and stump grinding across Englewood. The city’s EAB grant covers a quarter of the cost of ash treatment or removal, up to $500, and its own condition is the one that catches people: the application must be approved before any work takes place.
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Englewood’s EAB Grant Program is real money and the rules are short. Do them out of order and you get nothing, so here they are in sequence with the city’s own wording.
You need a scope and a number before you can apply for a share of it. The grant covers “removal and/or chemical treatment of ash (Fraxinus spp.) trees” — so the first question is whether your tree is actually an ash. Our assessment and quote cost nothing either way.
The city is explicit: “All work must be performed by a tree service licensed by the City of Englewood,” and “All chemical treatment must be performed by applicators licensed by the State of Colorado.” Ask any company for both, us included, and confirm with the city rather than taking a word for it.
“The application must be approved before any work takes place.” There is no retroactive route. A homeowner who books the removal first and applies afterwards has simply paid full price. Applications go to the Parks, Recreation, Library and Golf department and can be emailed or dropped at the Civic Center HUB, the library or either recreation centre.
“The grant covers 25% (Max. of $500) of the total cost for tree removal and/or chemical treatment.” Removals must be taken “to a stump of less than 24 inches in height.” One application per address per calendar year, residential only — commercial, industrial and high-density residential are not eligible.
Yes. The City of Englewood runs an EAB Grant Program that covers 25% of the cost of ash tree removal or chemical treatment, up to a maximum of $500, for residential properties. The application must be approved before any work takes place, all work must be performed by a tree service licensed by the City of Englewood, and chemical treatment must be applied by a state-licensed applicator. One application per address per calendar year.
The City of Englewood puts it at roughly 20,000 ash trees inside city limits, against a statewide figure of about 15% of Colorado’s urban forest being ash. Emerald ash borer has not been confirmed in Englewood. Arapahoe County’s first detection was in Littleton in June 2023.
The city is unusually clear about why it is spending money anyway. Its own grant page says the programme is “intended to be proactive before the emerald ash borer (EAB) arrives in Englewood with the removal of ash trees that are in poor condition and chemical treatment to protect citizen’s ash trees that are in good health.”
That is a sensible policy and it contains the whole strategy in one sentence: poor trees out, good trees protected. The only hard part is telling which is which, and that is a canopy assessment rather than a guess from the kerb. There is a certain irony in all of this for a city whose name means ‘wooded nook’ and which was known from the start for its abundance of trees.
Nearly every complaint people have about tree companies comes down to the same thing: something happened that the homeowner never agreed to. These five exist so that cannot happen here.
Englewood’s code declares three species unlawful, with an exception for mature specimens already standing. It is a rare ordinance and a useful one, because all three are trees people still get talked into.
Populus deltoides. Fast, huge, and structurally weak in exactly the way that drops limbs on cars. The female is the one that produces the cotton. If you have a mature one, the code exception means you are not required to remove it — but it is the tree most worth an honest structural assessment on any older Englewood lot.
Ulmus pumila. Planted everywhere in the mid-century, seeds into every crack, and produces brittle wood with poor branch attachment. Our customers describe exactly this tree in their reviews — the eighty-year-old Siberian elm that everyone is scared of in a windstorm. Good pruning genuinely changes the odds on these.
Acer negundo. A maple that behaves like a weed, with weak forks, short life and the box elder bug population that comes with it. Almost always a volunteer seedling nobody planted, discovered at ten years old when it is already a problem.
Englewood is 6.565 square miles and it is boxed in on every side — Denver to the north and west, Sheridan and Bow Mar west, Cherry Hills Village and Greenwood Village east, Littleton and Greenwood Village south. It has been effectively built out for decades.
That matters more than it sounds. Nothing here is a blank slate, so every planting decision is a replacement decision — made in a mature root zone, next to a structure, often over a utility.
Arapahoe Acres is the clearest example: built 1949 to 1957, on the National Register since 1998, with curvilinear streets and houses oriented for solar gain and mountain views. Get a species or a location wrong there and it is visible for fifty years.
On water, Englewood is the outlier in this metro. It runs its own utility and has never imposed mandatory restrictions. The current schedule is voluntary — odd addresses Monday, Wednesday and Friday, even addresses Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, before 10 AM or after 6 PM.
That could change. In April 2026 council strengthened its authority to go mandatory. Utilities Director Pieter Van Ry: “What these code changes do is allow us to make that transition away from voluntary to mandatory if the drought persists or gets worse.”
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It covers 25% of the cost of ash removal or chemical treatment, up to $500, for residential properties — and the application must be approved before any work takes place. All work must be performed by a tree service licensed by the City of Englewood, and chemical treatment by a state-licensed applicator. Removals must go to a stump under 24 inches, and it is one application per address per calendar year. Commercial, industrial and high-density residential properties are not eligible.
No. The city requires approval before the work happens. This is the single most common way people miss out on the money. If you are even considering treatment or removal of an ash this year, get the quote and get the application in before you schedule anything.
Not confirmed. The city describes its own programme as proactive, intended to act before the pest arrives. Arapahoe County’s first detection was in Littleton in June 2023. Englewood estimates roughly 20,000 ash trees inside its city limits, which is why the city is spending money ahead of a problem rather than after it.
Yes. City code enforcement states plainly: “If you use an arborist, they must be licensed in the City of Englewood.” The grant programme repeats the requirement, and adds that chemical applicators must be licensed by the State of Colorado. Ask any company for both before you hire it, and confirm with the city rather than taking a business card as proof.
Yes. Englewood’s code declares female cottonwood, Siberian elm and box elder unlawful, with an exception for mature trees already in place. All three are weak-wooded, and all three still get planted by people who do not know. If you have a mature one, the exception means you are not forced to remove it — but it is worth a structural look, particularly the Siberian elms.
Currently voluntary, not mandatory. Odd addresses Monday, Wednesday and Friday; even addresses Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; before 10 AM or after 6 PM. Englewood runs its own water utility and has never imposed mandatory restrictions, though council strengthened its authority to do so in April 2026. Check the city’s page before the season starts, because that could change.
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