Selective Underbrush Clearing in Jacksonville, TX

Underbrush in Jacksonville

Underbrushing is thinning out the tangle beneath your trees while leaving the trees themselves alone, and in Smith County that means a fight with yaupon. Yaupon holly grows into a solid, head-high thicket under loblolly pine and post oak, and with greenbriar, privet and young sweetgum it turns a pretty stand of timber into something you cannot see into, walk through or hunt. I grind that understory out with the mulcher and leave a clean floor of chips under the canopy. The result is open, park-like woods: shade on top, mulch underneath, sight lines all the way across the property. It is the first thing most people want done on a wooded homesite in Flint, Whitehouse or Lindale, the way lake lot owners at Lake Palestine and Lake Tyler open up a view, and how hunters and recreational owners on bigger tracts around Mineola, Gilmer and Jacksonville get their woods usable again. The big trees stay. The junk growth choking the ground under them goes.

Land clearing in Jacksonville

Jacksonville is the biggest town in Cherokee County, about 30 miles south of Tyler on US-69, the old Tomato Capital with the Tomato Bowl downtown and Love’s Lookout on the ridge north of town looking out over miles of pine. Lake Jacksonville sits southwest of the city, US-79 runs east and west through it, and the land in every direction is deep East Texas timber on steep red clay hills. Cherokee County is thicker and hillier than Smith County: loblolly and shortleaf pine, red oak, hickory, sweetgum, and yaupon as dense as it gets. I clear homesites and drives on acreage off US-69 and US-79, underbrush lake lots at Lake Jacksonville, open up hunting and recreational tracts toward Rusk and New Summerfield, mulch fence lines and lanes on timber tracts, and clear hazard pines around homes before a storm does it. The clay hills here gully badly when they are stripped, so mulching in place is more than a preference. The chip layer holds the slope through the next hard rain, which a bare dozer cut never does. One operator, one machine, priced by the acre or the job after I walk the tract with you.

• Yaupon, greenbriar, privet and young sweetgum ground out under the canopy
• Every mature pine, post oak and shade tree left standing
• Clean mulch floor instead of debris piles
• Open, walkable woods with sight lines across the tract
• Better wildlife browse and lower fire fuel around structures
• Homesites, lake lots, hunting ground and recreational acreage

Need underbrush elsewhere? See all of my Jacksonville services or underbrush across Tyler.