Ashe juniper and mesquite take water, grazing and visibility. Clearing them is the highest-return work on most North Texas properties — and the easiest to do in a way you regret.
What we run
Skid-steer mulching
Grinds standing brush where it stands and leaves the material as a mat. No piles, no burning, no haul-off, and the mulch holds moisture and suppresses regrowth. Best tool for cedar up to about eight inches and for selective work where you want to keep specific trees.
Shredding
Faster and cheaper on regrowth and light brush. The right call for maintenance passes, not for a first clearing.
Senderos and lanes
Cut lines through heavy brush for access, sight lines and working cattle.
What we leave standing — this is the part that matters
Total clearing is almost always the wrong answer. Hardwoods are worth more standing than anything that replaces them: live oak, post oak, bur oak, cedar elm. We leave mottes and travel corridors rather than opening a property edge to edge, because deer will not cross a hundred acres of bare ground in daylight and you will have removed the reason they were there.
Mesquite gets judged, not blanket-removed — it fixes nitrogen, the beans are feed in a dry year, and scattered mesquite in a grassland is not a problem.
Cedar is different. A mature Ashe juniper transpires a meaningful volume of water daily and shades out everything beneath it. On most properties here, cedar is the clearing target and the hardwoods are not.
Clearing and seeding are one job
Bare ground colonises with whatever arrives first, which is usually annual weeds and the brush you just removed. Scoping native seeding with the clearing costs less than coming back for it, and it is what decides whether the work holds for ten years or three.
Walk the property with us before anything is marked. Call (940) 779-4001.
