Tree Service in West Valley City, UT

West Valley City was formed in 1980 when four communities, Granger, Hunter, Chesterfield and Redwood, merged into what is now Utah's second-largest city, with 140,230 people in 2020. Tree Service in West Valley City covers a lot of ground, about 36 square miles between the Jordan River on the east and the Oquirrh Mountains on the west, and a lot of history: Welsh settlers arrived in Granger in 1849, and Hunter was settled in 1876.

The Siberian elm question

The Utah Big Tree Directory lists West Valley as the location of its largest recorded Siberian elm. That says a lot about how well the species does here. Siberian elm tolerates heat, drought, alkaline soil and neglect. It also:

• Grows fast and produces brittle wood that breaks in wind and wet snow
• Drops huge loads of papery seed every spring that clog gutters and sprout in beds
• Hosts elm seed bugs and elm leaf beetles, which invade houses in summer and fall
• Suckers and reseeds into fence lines, where it grows into the wires and the neighbor's yard

We prune Siberian elms that are worth keeping and remove the ones that are not. Many of the ones we take down were never planted on purpose: they came up from seed against a fence and were left to grow.

Big households, busy yards

Census figures show an average of about 3.5 people per household in West Valley City, one of the highest in the valley, and an owner-occupied rate of about 72 percent. Yards here get used: kids, dogs, gardens, trailers parked on the side. When we plan a removal, we ask where play equipment, gardens and parked vehicles are so the work goes around them.

East side, west side

The older Granger and Chesterfield areas toward the Jordan River tend to have the biggest, oldest trees. Hunter, toward the Oquirrhs, filled in later and has younger landscapes, more open ground and more wind exposure. The work shifts accordingly: dismantling big old trees on the east side, structural pruning and windbreak cleanup on the west.

The wood has to go somewhere

Elm wood is stringy and hard to split, and most people do not want it as firewood. Our estimates spell out whether wood is chipped and hauled, left in rounds, or a mix, so there is no surprise pile on the park strip.

Call (385) 217-6481 or request an estimate, and tell us which part of the city you are in. Get a free estimate