
From overgrown to usable
Land & Brush Clearing
Building sites, fence lines, driveways, and parcels the blackberries took back. Cleared, chipped on site, and left ready to use.
Licensed & insured
CSLB #1132934
ISA certified arborists
Trained tree care, not tree butchery
Native owned, family run
Owned and run by a Humboldt family
5 stars on Google
100+ reviews from real neighbors
North Coast land does not stay cleared on its own. Blackberry swallows a fence line in two summers, alder volunteers fill a pasture, and the parcel you bought with a view comes with a decade of regrowth between you and it. Clearing that land well is tree work: knowing what to cut, what to keep, and how to get the material gone instead of piled.
What we clear
- ✓Building sites: trees down, brush out, stumps taken out, the pad left ready for your excavation contractor.
- ✓Overgrown parcels and pastures: reclaiming land from brush, volunteer trees, and berry thickets.
- ✓Fence lines, driveways, and private roads: cleared wide enough to build, drive, and maintain.
- ✓Trails and view corridors: access and sightlines cut with a light hand, so it looks like land, not a job site.
- ✓Invasives: blackberry, scotch broom, and English ivy taken out at the roots of the problem, not just mowed to regrow.
The material leaves with us
The difference between clearing and moving a mess ten feet is what happens to the vegetation. Our chipper travels with the crew, so brush becomes chips the same day: left as mulch if you want it, hauled if you do not. Wood worth keeping gets bucked into firewood rounds for your pile. Nothing sits in a slash pile drying into next season's fire problem, which is also why clearing pairs naturally with ourdefensible space work.
Sized for real parcels
Compact equipment gets through gates and between trees you are keeping. Climbers and hand crews work the spots machines cannot reach, including steep and remote pieces of Humboldt and Del Norte that flatland outfits will not touch. And because the same company handles the tree removaland stump grinding, you get one crew, one quote, and one standard of cleanup from first cut to finished grade. CSLB #1132934, licensed and insured.
Where we do it
Land & Brush Clearing by town
Every town has its own page, written for its trees, its lots, and its weather.
Land & Brush Clearing in Humboldt County →
- ArcataThe classic Arcata hazard is a redwood or Sitka spruce planted in the 1970s that is now a …
- EurekaThe trees that worry Eureka most are the old Monterey cypress, eucalyptus, and pine plante…
- McKinleyvilleWind-formed shore pine and Sitka spruce with a permanent lean and dead limbs over a house …
- FortunaFortuna's storm failures are cottonwoods and willows along the river shedding big limbs, a…
- FerndaleThe dominant Ferndale hazard is an aging windbreak tree, a huge Monterey cypress or blue g…
- CuttenThe Cutten hazard is redwood limb weight over roofs and Douglas firs that have died back a…
- Rio DellStorm-worn Douglas fir and Monterey pine near houses, and cottonwoods that drop limbs ever…
- Willow CreekDrought-stressed firs and pines dying from bark beetles, and black oak limbs over roofs, a…
- Blue LakeFast-growing cottonwoods and alders along the river dropping limbs young, and hazard firs …
- TrinidadWind-formed Sitka spruce and cypress windbreaks that have outgrown their root systems and …
Land & Brush Clearing in Del Norte County →
- Crescent CitySalt-damaged, wind-broken conifers near homes, and leaners that get a little worse every w…
- Smith RiverAn old, gappy, or overgrown cypress and spruce windbreak that has stopped protecting the h…
- Fort DickStorm-broken windbreak trees dropping on outbuildings and fence lines are the Fort Dick ca…
- GasquetDead and leaning firs and pines over cabins in steep terrain are the Gasquet removals that…
- HiouchiBig second-growth redwood and fir limbs over homes, and hazard trees in tight spots betwee…
- KlamathSitka spruce and redwood leaning over houses after a winter system stalls on the river mou…
Land clearing questions
How much does land clearing cost?
It depends on acreage, how thick the growth is, how many trees are in the mix, and access. A brushy quarter-acre building site and ten acres of overgrown pasture are very different projects. We walk the parcel, flag what needs to happen, and give you a firm written number. Larger projects can be staged, and financing is available.
What happens to all the cleared material?
Brush gets chipped on site the same day, and the chips can stay as mulch or leave with us. Millable or firewood-grade wood gets bucked for your pile or hauled. What we never do is leave slash piles behind to dry into a fire hazard.
Can you clear around structures and fences without damaging them?
Yes, that is most of the job. Fence lines, driveways, and building edges are exactly where clearing takes judgment instead of horsepower. Compact equipment where it fits, hand work where it does not.
Do you do the grading and dirt work too?
We handle the vegetation side: trees, brush, stumps, and cleanup. For a building pad, we get the site to cleared with the stumps taken out, ready for your excavation contractor to take over the dirt. We are happy to coordinate timing with them.
Ready for a straight answer about your trees?
Free quotes. Honest recommendations. A clean site when we leave.