If you need a landscaper in Lewisville, WA, you are probably dealing with a house that has stood since the 1970s, land that runs toward the East Fork Lewis River, or both. Lewisville's median home was built in 1980, and the community sits along SR 503 just north of Battle Ground, where the highway crosses the river and passes Lewisville Park.
That mix calls for a crew that can renovate an older landscape and also work carefully near a salmon and steelhead river. Bogar Landscaping drives out from Woodland for free on-site estimates in Lewisville and the neighboring acreage in Venersborg, Cherry Grove and Battle Ground.
Lewisville, WA: 1970s Ranch Homes on River-Country Acreage
Lewisville's housing is older than most of north Clark County. A third of its homes were built in the 1970s and another 17 percent are older still. They sit on big parcels, roughly 4 acres of land per household across the community's 5.6 square miles, with landscapes installed when the house was new and patched piece by piece since.
On a property that age, the common needs are:
- Walks and patios that have heaved or sunk. Old flagstone and concrete crack and tilt as tree roots grow and the soil settles.
- Beds that lost their edges. Decades of leaf drop and bark dust build beds up against the siding and bury the original borders.
- Long drives with thin gravel, potholes at the low spots and shoulders grown over with grass.
- Trees that now run the yard. Firs and maples planted around a 1970s house shade the lawn, crowd the roof and fill the gutters.
We fix these in whatever order makes sense for your place, starting with anything that sends water toward the house.
Working Near the East Fork Lewis River and Lewisville Park
Lewisville Park is the oldest park in Clark County's system: 154 acres on the East Fork, with rustic shelters and a bathhouse that WPA crews built between 1936 and 1940 from local logs and rock. The river itself carries chinook, coho, chum and steelhead, and that matters for any property close to it.
Clark County treats land near fish-bearing streams as riparian habitat, at least 200 feet from the ordinary high water mark (250 feet along rivers mapped as shorelines of statewide significance) or out to the 100-year floodplain if that is wider, and clearing or development there needs a permit. The county does exempt removing English ivy, Himalayan blackberry and Scotch broom when the work does not disturb the soil or damage native plants.
For riverside lots, that shapes how we work:
- Inside the buffer, we cut blackberry and ivy by hand and leave the soil and native plants in place, and we check with the county before anything beyond that.
- Outside the buffer, the mini excavator can pull root crowns and stumps.
- Replanting a cleared bank with natives such as Indian plum, red-flowering currant and sword fern suits the river setting, and we confirm with the county what planting needs review.
Slopes, Bluffs and Retaining Walls in Lewisville
At about 614 feet, Lewisville sits well above the river, and properties near the East Fork step down through terraces and steep bluffs. On those lots the work is about holding soil in place and building walls that last.
Unincorporated Clark County requires a permit for a retaining wall over 4 feet measured from the bottom of the footing to the top, and for any wall holding up a load such as a slope or driveway, and a Washington-registered engineer must design any wall that needs a permit. Short walls for beds and patio edges usually fall below that line. Anything taller goes through the county with an engineer's design, and we build to it with a drain line, filter fabric and clean rock backfill. For banks that do not need a wall, we reshape the slope and cover the soil with plants or rock ahead of the November rains so it stays out of the river.
