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Tree guides for Cape Coral homeowners

Plain-language answers to the questions we hear most: what removal costs here, whether you need a permit (you don't, but the state has rules), how to get the trees ready for hurricane season, why the pines are still dying after Ian, what to do about the owls on your lot, and which palm diseases have no cure.

Climber lowering a live oak limb on a rope over the roof of a canal-front home in Cape Coral

Tree removal cost in Cape Coral

2026 prices by size and species, canal-lot and crane add-ons, and what moves the number.

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Aerial view of Cape Coral's canal grid with waterfront homes, seawalls, palms and the Caloosahatchee beyond

Do you need a permit in Cape Coral?

No city permit — but F.S. 163.045, the required-tree count, the invasive list, the islands and Fort Myers all have rules.

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Arborist thinning and raising an oak canopy over a tile roof ahead of hurricane season in Cape Coral

Hurricane tree prep in Lee County

What Charley, Wilma, Irma, Ian and Milton taught us, which species survive, and the May checklist.

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Slash pines with red-brown needles standing dead among green pines after Hurricane Ian in Lee County

Pines dying after Ian

Ring shake, saltwater and Ips beetles: why slash pines are still failing three summers later.

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Burrowing owl standing beside its burrow and a white PVC perch on a sandy vacant lot in Cape Coral

Burrowing owls and lot clearing

Buffers, nesting season, FWC permits, tortoises and eagles — the rules for clearing a Cape Coral lot.

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Dead queen palm with a shelf fungus conk at its base being taken down in a southwest Florida yard

Palm diseases in Lee County

Ganoderma, lethal bronzing and lethal yellowing: how to tell them from a hungry palm, and what to do.

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Got a tree that worries you?

Free on-site estimate, a written price, an honest answer on whether it really needs to come down — and 24/7 storm response across Cape Coral and Lee County.

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