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Tree service in Greenway, Beaverton

Greenway takes its name from the long park that follows Fanno Creek through southeast Beaverton. The subdivisions on both sides went in during the 1970s and 1980s, and many lots back directly onto the park, the trail or one of the creek's side channels.

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Where Greenway sits.

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The trees of Greenway

ZIP 97008. Inside Beaverton city limits, between Hall Boulevard, Scholls Ferry Road and Highway 217.

Living next to a creek means living with wet-ground trees. They grow faster, get bigger and fall apart sooner than the firs and maples on higher ground, and the rules for cutting them are stricter.

Black cottonwood, Oregon ash, red alder and willow dominate the low ground. Cottonwood is the giant of the group: fast, soft-wooded and prone to dropping large limbs in summer with no warning. Alder is short-lived, and at forty or fifty years it starts to die from the top. Both are common along back fences here.

A high water table keeps roots shallow. In a wet winter the soil along the creek is saturated for months, and shallow-rooted trees on saturated ground are the ones that tip over whole in a windstorm. Trees that lean toward the house from the creek side deserve a look before the rainy season.

Then there is ash. Fanno Creek's bottomland is full of native Oregon ash, and emerald ash borer was confirmed in Beaverton in August 2026. Over the next several years most untreated ash along the creek are likely to die. If you have ash on your lot, this is the year to identify them and decide which are worth treating.

What we are usually called for in Greenway

Cottonwood and alder limbs over yards

Reduction of long, heavy limbs that hang over fences, sheds and play areas from trees on the creek side, and removal of dead alder tops. Tree trimming and maintenance.

Ash assessment and removal

Identifying ash, judging whether each one is worth protecting, and removing declining trees while the wood is still sound enough to climb. Tree removal.

Whole trees down after wind on wet ground

Uprooted trees across back fences and into yards after winter storms. We clear what is on your side and tell you who to contact about the rest. Emergency tree service.

Stumps that keep sprouting

Cottonwood, willow and alder resprout from the stump and roots. A thorough grind removes most of the buds, and the suckers give up within a season or two. Stump grinding.

Around Greenway

Local landmarks, and what the trees around each one tell you about your own.

Greenway Park

The park is a working floodplain, and beavers dam the creek and flood the trail most winters. Beavers also fell and girdle trees along the banks. If a tree on your lot near the water has been chewed around the base, it needs looking at, because a girdled tree dies standing.

Fanno Creek Trail

The trail shows every stage of a bottomland forest: young alder thickets, mature ash groves and old cottonwoods shedding limbs. Trees on park land are the park district's to manage. If one threatens your yard, report it to them in writing.

Koll Center Wetlands

The wetlands at the north end are a mapped natural resource, and the office parks around them have protected landscape trees. It is a good example of how much of Greenway's tree cover is regulated in one way or another.

Hall Boulevard and Scholls Ferry Road

Both are arterials with a 14-foot clearance over the roadway. Homes that back onto them often have a planted screen of conifers along the wall, usually a condition of the subdivision.

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Which tree rules apply in Greenway

Greenway is inside the city, and more of its private trees are regulated than in most neighborhoods, because so many lots touch the creek.

Inside Beaverton city limits

The tree between the sidewalk and the street is a street tree. You maintain it, and removing it takes a city permit and normally a replacement from the city's approved list. Cutting 20 percent or more of the crown or roots counts as removal. Street trees have to clear 8 feet over the sidewalk, 12 feet over the street and 14 feet over arterials, and topping them is prohibited.

Most ordinary backyard trees need no permit. The exceptions are the trees the development code protects: significant and historic trees, trees in significant groves and natural resource areas, and landscape or mitigation trees that were kept or planted as a condition of the subdivision. If your lot backs onto a greenway, a creek or a preserved grove, treat the trees along that edge as protected until the Planning Division (503-526-2420) says otherwise.

Specific to Greenway

Fanno Creek and its wetlands are a significant natural resource area with a regulated buffer. Trees inside that buffer are protected even on your own lot, and that usually includes dead trees, because standing dead wood is habitat. Where a tree in the buffer is a real hazard to a house, the city has a process for it. Start with a call to the Planning Division, and we can supply the written assessment.

The permit checker gives a first answer in two questions, and the permit guide has the detail. We check every tree's status before a job is booked.

Tree services we offer in Greenway

How a job goes

You call or send the form and tell us what the tree is doing. Phone photos help.
We walk the site and write the estimate in plain language.
Permits and the 811 utility locate are sorted out before any saw starts.
On the day, drop zones are protected and anything over a structure is roped down.
We rake, blow and haul, then walk the yard with you before we leave.

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Tree service questions from Greenway

Can I remove a tree on my lot that is close to Fanno Creek?

Possibly, but ask first. The creek has a regulated buffer, and trees inside it are protected even on private land. A tree that is a genuine hazard can usually be dealt with through the city's process. Cutting first and asking later can mean penalties.

A tree in Greenway Park is leaning over my fence. Who deals with it?

The park district, because it is their tree. Report it in writing with photos. You may trim limbs that overhang your side back to the line if that doesn't harm the tree, but the tree itself is not yours to cut.

How do I know if I have an ash tree?

Ash has opposite branching, with twigs in pairs directly across from each other, and compound leaves with five to nine leaflets. Along Fanno Creek, the gray-barked trees in wet ground with that leaf are almost always Oregon ash.

Why did a healthy-looking cottonwood drop a huge limb in summer?

Cottonwoods are known for it. On hot, still days large limbs can fail without wind, a pattern called summer limb drop. Long, heavy, horizontal limbs over places people use are the ones worth shortening.

Do you give free estimates in Greenway?

Yes. We walk the site, tell you what the tree needs, and put the scope in writing: what is cut, how it comes down, where the wood and chips go and whether the stump is included. Call (503) 386-0199 or send the form on this page.

Request an estimate

Tell us about the tree and we'll call to set up a site walk. For emergency service, skip the form and call.