Selective Underbrush Clearing in Kilgore, TX

Underbrush in Kilgore

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 Kilgore

Kilgore sits on the Gregg and Rusk county line about 25 miles east of Tyler on Hwy 31, the town that the East Texas Oil Field built in 1930 and still wears it: the derricks of the World’s Richest Acre downtown, the East Texas Oil Museum at Kilgore College, and old lease ground on every side. Hwy 42, Hwy 135 and Hwy 259 run out of town through pine timber and pasture, I-20 and the Sabine River bottom are just north toward Liberty City, and the Rusk County side to the south is pine plantation and ranch country. The land here has a history under it: old well pads, lease roads, pipeline rights-of-way and tank battery sites that have grown shut with yaupon and sweetgum since the field slowed down. I reopen those roads and rights-of-way, mulch the brush off old pad sites so the acreage is whole again, clear homesites and drives for people building off Hwy 42 and Hwy 135, underbrush wooded tracts, clear fence lines on the ranch ground south of town and take out the hazard pines near homes. Sandy ground, fast-growing brush, and a lot of iron in the way means I walk every tract first, flag what matters, and price it by the acre or the job before the machine shows up.

• 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

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