Salem and Keizer out to Silverton, Woodburn, Stayton and the farm towns between — the ash country of Marion County and the Polk County edge of it.
Call (971) 518-3780Tell us the town and describe the tree. Same free assessment whether it is a back yard in Salem or a fencerow outside Woodburn. Call (971) 518-3780.
Keizer sits on the Willamette with ash along every low-lying edge of it — and squarely inside the Marion County emerald ash borer quarantine.
Keizer →Emerald ash borer was confirmed at a private home in Silverton in June 2026. If you own an ash tree here, this is no longer a question about somewhere else.
Silverton →Ash lines the ditches and the Pudding River drainage across the farm country around Woodburn — and the I-5 corridor is exactly how infested wood travels.
Woodburn →Stayton sits on the North Santiam, sixteen miles southeast of Salem — hard riparian country, and hard ash country with it.
Stayton →Ash tree removal, emerald ash borer assessment, dead and hazard ash work, storm response and stump grinding across: Salem · West Salem · Keizer · Silverton · Woodburn · Stayton · Turner · Aumsville · Sublimity · Mt. Angel · Gervais · Hubbard · Jefferson · Independence · Monmouth · Dallas · Four Corners · Hayesville.
This is the one genuinely unusual thing about doing ash work in this particular city. Oregon's permanent emerald ash borer quarantine covers Washington, Yamhill, Marion, Clackamas and Multnomah counties and restricts moving ash, white fringetree and olive material out of that zone. Most of Salem — downtown and everything east of the river — is in Marion County, inside the zone. West Salem is in Polk County, outside it, and the Willamette that forms Keizer's southwestern border is the same county line.
The sensible way to handle that is not to guess. Ask where the ash wood and chips from your job are going before work begins, and confirm the current rules with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, which maintains and updates them. Established local outfits deal with this routinely now — it has become a normal part of ash work in the mid-valley — but it belongs in the conversation up front.
Oregon ash follows water, so the service area's ash population traces the valley's drainages: the Willamette itself, Mill Creek and Pringle Creek and Shelton Ditch through Salem, Claggett Creek through Keizer, Silver Creek through Silverton on its way to the Pudding River, the Pudding River drainage across the Woodburn farm country, and the North Santiam and the 1857 Salem Ditch around Stayton. If your property touches any of those, you very likely have ash — and you are also likely inside the roughly 50-foot riparian corridor where Salem requires a removal permit.
Salem, Keizer, Silverton, Woodburn, Stayton and everywhere between — same free assessment, same honest answer.
(971) 518-3780Washington, Yamhill, Marion, Clackamas and Multnomah. The quarantine is permanent and restricts moving ash, white fringetree and olive material out of the zone. Marion County — which includes most of Salem, Keizer, Silverton, Woodburn and Stayton — is inside it.
West Salem is in Polk County, which is not one of the five quarantine counties — so the quarantine line runs through Salem itself. That is unusual and it is worth being careful rather than casual about: ask your contractor where the ash wood and chips from your job are going, and confirm the current rules with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, which sets and updates them. We do not offer a legal reading of any particular haul.
Not as a rule. What moves a quote is trunk diameter, how dead the ash tree is, what stands underneath it and whether a truck can reach it. A long drive can matter on a very small job, which is another reason grouping several trees into one visit pays.
Call anyway. The list covers the regular service area, but the Marion and Polk County line is not a wall — if you are within reasonable reach of Salem, it is worth asking.