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The Guide: Tree Service Companies in Atlantic Highlands, 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 Atlantic Highlands, Highlands and Keansburg.
1 business returned for this cluster (Atlantic Highlands, Highlands and Keansburg). 1 is Registered, 1 with a Licensed Tree Expert. 0 are Suspended.
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 Atlantic Highlands, Highlands and Keansburg. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.
The Businesses, Compared
Listed alphabetically.
| Business | NJTC Registration # | Licensee and class | Based in | Services published | Storm / emergency availability | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontier Tree Co. Inc. | 840722 | Kevin Slavin (LTE) | Atlantic Highlands | Tree removal, tree pruning, insect & disease control, fertilization, tree risk assessment, stump grinding, root collar excavation, organic tree & shrub care programs, health assessments, soil management & root excavation, organic pest management, nutrient analysis, lawn services | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
Checked against the New Jersey Board of Tree Experts.
Nearby options
| Business | NJTC Registration # | Licensee and class | Based in | Services published | Storm / emergency availability | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boylan Tree Service | 772517 | Matthew Boylan (LTCO); Matthew Boylan, Jr (LTCO) | Leonardo | Tree trimming and pruning, tree removal, stump removal and grinding, emergency tree service, land clearing | Published: 24/7 | 2026-10-18 |
| Ed’s Tree Removal LLC | 777855 | John Betz (LTCO) | Belford | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Flynns Tree Service | 768235 | Cullen Flynn (LTE); Michael Flynn (LTCO) | Middletown | Certified arborist services, tree removals, stump grinding, tree/branch trimming, plant health care, crane work | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| G&J Landscape Tree Experts | 782363 | Gregory Kempson, Jr (LTCO) | Belford | No site found | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Hufnagel Tree LLC. | 768440 | Michael Hufnagel (LTE) | Middletown | Tree trimming & pruning, tree removal, emergency removals, tree storm proofing, tree restoration, tree health management, tree risk evaluation, tree stump removal, hedgerow trimming, commercial service | Not stated | 2026-10-18 |
| Woodys Lawn and Landscape | 768895 | Chance Woodginski (LTCO) | Belford | Tree trimming and pruning, tree removal and stump grinding, lawn maintenance, mulch/edging/clean-ups, landscape services, storm clean-up | Published: 24/7 | 2026-10-18 |
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 Atlantic Highlands, Highlands and Keansburg. 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.