Marcoola
Tree removal in Marcoola
Tree removal, stump grinding and pruning in Marcoola, from the foreshore to the blocks near Mount Coolum National Park.
Tree work in Marcoola
Paperbarks that come back and a park that burns
In the national park's Marcoola section, melaleucas have been encroaching on the heathland, and from May 2023 the state planned to remove them from about 22 hectares and inject the stumps so they could not re-sprout. A paperbark cut down in a yard can come back the same way, so a melaleuca removal here allows for grinding or treating the stump from the start.
Fire is part of managing the park. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service fire history maps a planned burn of about 82 hectares in the Marcoola section of Mount Coolum National Park in 2024. The same records show a wildfire of about 2.4 hectares in the park's north Marcoola section in 2017. Homes near it are kept fire-wise, with dead trees, fallen limbs and leaf litter cleared and branches cut well back from roofs and gutters.
Services in Marcoola
Re-sprouting stumps and a fire-managed edge
How it works
What happens after you get in touch
The council question is answered before the price, and nothing is booked until you have the quote in writing and have said yes to it.
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Tell us about the tree
The suburb, what the tree stands near and what you would like done with it.
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Someone comes to look
A tree contractor who covers your area sees the tree, the access and whatever is underneath it.
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The council position is checked
Lot size, how close the tree is to the house and the mapping on the block decide whether an application comes first.
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Quoted in writing
Scope, timber, stump and date set out on one page. Nothing is booked until you accept it.
Marcoola questions
Poisoned foreshore plants and the creek reserve
Can the foreshore trees be trimmed for a better view?
No. The council investigated the poisoning of trees and plants with herbicide across an area about the size of two football fields in the Mudjimba-Marcoola Foreshore Reserve. Trees in the reserve are the council's alone to prune or remove, and work on a nearby block stays on the private side of the boundary.
What about blocks beside the Coolum Creek bushland?
Coolum Creek (east) Environment Reserve is about 37.8 hectares of conservation land on the council's environment levy register, under council management. Its trees are not for neighbours to prune or remove, so a property on its edge confirms where the boundary runs before any tree work along the fence.
