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The Guide: Tree Service Companies near Belmar, NJ
A large tree that’s leaning, storm-damaged, or growing too close to the house is a judgment call before it’s a job — deciding whether it should come down, be cabled, or be left alone is work the state limits to a Licensed Tree Expert. Routine work — pruning low branches, grinding a stump, clearing storm debris, or taking down a smaller tree — can be handled by any registered tree care business, including one licensed only as a Licensed Tree Care Operator, and that’s often the more affordable choice for the job. The comparison table below shows which license each business on this page holds.
How We Selected These Businesses
Every business on this page carries an active registration with the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts, showing a status of Registered and naming at least one individual the Board licenses as a Licensed Tree Expert or a Licensed Tree Care Operator. We read the register ourselves and recorded what it showed, on the date printed next to each business. This guide covers Belmar, Avon-by-the-Sea, Bradley Beach, Spring Lake Heights and Lake Como.
0 businesses returned for this cluster (Belmar, Avon-by-the-Sea, Bradley Beach, Spring Lake Heights and Lake Como). Every business on this page is Registered and based nearby.
Which Business Fits Your Job
A big tree over the house that’s leaning, storm-damaged, or possibly dying calls for a judgment before any saw comes out — whether it should come down, be cabled, or be left alone — and that assessment is work the state licenses only to a Licensed Tree Expert. A business employing a Licensed Tree Expert, marked LTE in the table below, is the fit for that call.
Low branches over a driveway, a stump, storm debris already on the ground, or routine pruning and removal is work any registered business can legally do, including one licensed only as a Licensed Tree Care Operator (LTCO) — and that license often costs less. Tree removal itself, including a large tree, is LTCO scope; the license does not indicate crew size, equipment, or capacity, only which judgment calls the business is licensed to make.
About This Guide
This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Tree service companies appear here because the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts’ public register shows their registration status as Registered and names at least one licensed individual — a Licensed Tree Expert or a Licensed Tree Care Operator — on that registration. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No business can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the table says about it. Businesses are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each business’s own website and the NJ Board of Tree Experts’ public register in October 2026.
Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labelled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Where a row carries a verification date, that is when we last checked that business’s record ourselves. A row without one has not been checked recently — that is a fact about our work, not about the business. The NJ Board of Tree Experts checks each business’s insurance when it registers and again at its two-year renewal; nothing checks it in between, and we did not verify insurance coverage ourselves on the date shown for each row.
Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Belmar, Avon-by-the-Sea, Bradley Beach, Spring Lake Heights and Lake Como. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.
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Listed alphabetically.
| Business | NJTC Registration # | Licensee and class | Based in | Services published | Storm / emergency availability | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burke Environmental Inc | 831709 | Alexander Burke (LTE) | Wall Twp | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| By Design Landscapes, Inc. | 782354 | Joseph Brycki (LTCO) | Manasquan | Landscape design and construction, outdoor kitchen, waterfalls, low voltage lighting, retaining walls, fencing, fire features, ponds, outdoor living spaces, irrigation, hardscape installation (tree services not itemized) | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Controlled Growth, LLC | 772524 | John Hurst (LTE) | Manasquan | Lawn care programs, tick and mosquito control, bed weed programs, Tree & Shrub Care program, soil testing (tree services not itemized) | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Tantums Tree Removal LLC | 777879 | Howard Tantum (LTCO) | Neptune | Tree removal, land clearing | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Tree Ya Later LLC | 939213 | Joseph Bellavia (LTCO) | Neptune | Tree trimming and removal, pruning, stump grinding, emergency tree service, land clearing, excavating and grading, plant health care | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Valle Landscaping Inc | 924771 | Gerardo Valle (LTCO); Silvestre Valle (LTCO) | Neptune | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
Checked against the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.
Something out of date?
This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, an address, a registration number, or whether a business has closed — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly, and a business that publishes a registration number we have recorded as absent is exactly the kind of correction we want.
And if you run a tree service company that should be on this list and is not: the test is the same one every business here cleared — that the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts’ public register shows your business as Registered, with at least one licensed individual named on the registration, based in Belmar, Avon-by-the-Sea, Bradley Beach, Spring Lake Heights and Lake Como. Show us that and you go on the page.
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Additional Resources
NJ Board of Tree Experts register
This is not a ranking.