Tree Service in Buckingham, FL

Tree Service in Buckingham looks nothing like tree work in a subdivision. The community covers about 18 square miles in northeastern Lee County with only 4,443 residents at the 2020 census, around 247 people per square mile, and 63.5% of them live in areas the census classifies as rural. Fort Myers borders it to the southwest and Lehigh Acres wraps around the south and east. Fort Myers Tree Service Pros works on Buckingham's acreage properties: pruning big pasture oaks, removing dead pines, clearing fence lines and opening up space for a barn, a pond or a new house.

Large properties bring larger rules. Lee County requires a vegetation permit to clear trees or vegetation on single-family residential property of five acres or more. Smaller jobs are simpler: the county's guide says removing five or fewer trees a year from a single-family lot with an existing home doesn't need a permit. Agricultural clearing has its own path, a Notice of Clearing, and if a property is rezoned within three years after that notice, the county's open space rules can require replanting. If you're thinking about clearing more than a few trees, call us before anything is cut and we'll help you figure out which of these applies.

Wildlife is part of rural work too. Gopher tortoises are protected by the state and listed as threatened by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and killing, harassing or disturbing them, their eggs or their burrows is illegal. Their burrows show up in open, sandy, higher ground, which is often exactly where people want to clear. We check for burrows before moving equipment, and bald eagle nests are another reason to look before cutting in a stand of tall pines.

For homeowners who just want a clean, safe property, the work is more familiar. Pasture oaks that have grown wide over a driveway get their lower limbs raised for trucks and trailers. Pines killed by lightning or beetles come down before they fall on a fence. Palms around the house get trimmed before hurricane season. And when there's room, felled trees can sometimes be cut into firewood lengths and left on site, which lowers the hauling cost.

Some of what we do on Buckingham properties:

• Selective clearing and fence-line clearing
• Removing dead or lightning-struck pines
• Raising limbs on oaks over driveways, gates and barns
• Stump grinding in pastures and lawns
• Clearing brush and small trees around a homesite
• Storm cleanup across larger properties

The community's history is still visible. The Historic Buckingham School stands here, a reminder of how long people have lived on this land. We treat the old trees on those properties with care, because a hundred-year-old live oak isn't something anyone can replace. UF/IFAS research found live oaks among the most wind-resistant trees in Florida, which is one more reason to prune them rather than take them out.

Call (239) 236-3651 or send the form. We'll walk the property with you and give you a written estimate. Get a free estimate