Dothan's Trusted Land Clearing & Brush Removal Experts

Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, field edge clearing and lot preparation across Dothan and the Wiregrass.

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Land Clearing Before & After

Ground you cannot walk through, turned into ground you can use.

Thick understory grown in beneath a stand of mature trees BEFORE
The same ground opened to a walkable floor with a mulch mat left down AFTER
A field edge closed in by dense scrub and low limbs BEFORE
The same edge cut back to open ground with the keeper trees still standing AFTER

What Our Customers Say

Real Cut Brush customers, in their own words.

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"My 2-acre property was so thick you couldn't walk through it. One day later, it looked like a park."

– Jason M

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"Fast, honest, no drama. They quoted Tuesday, cleared Thursday. Done by Friday."

– Carrie D.

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"We didn't realize how much land we had until Cut Brush cleared it."

– Tony & Lisa R.

From Overgrown to Usable in 3 Steps

A straightforward process from the first conversation to land you can use.

1

Request a Free Quote

Tell us where the land is, roughly how many acres you want opened, and what it is for next: a homesite, a field brought back, a food plot or simply ground you can walk. You get a clear written quote.

2

We Clear Your Land

The agreed scope gets worked with equipment cleaned before it arrives, around the pines, fences and field lines you asked us to keep, and with any cogongrass patch handled on purpose rather than by accident.

3

Enjoy Your Property

Put the opened ground to work as a house site, pasture, hunting ground or a field edge that stops creeping inward every season.

What We Take On Around Dothan

From a grown-in lot inside the city to a pine-choked back forty out past Slocomb or Kinston.

Forestry Mulching

Forestry Mulching

Yes, across the Wiregrass: one tracked machine grinding pine thicket, sweetgum and brush where it stands, with no pile left to burn under the city device rule.
Land Clearing

Land Clearing

Whole tracts and homesites opened across Houston, Dale, Henry, Geneva and Coffee counties, with the finish you are buying written into the quote.
Field Edge & Understory Work

Field Edge & Understory Work

Crop field margins, fence rows and the brush under pines you are keeping, cut back to open ground with any cogongrass patch flagged first.
Lot & Homesite Prep

Lot & Homesite Prep

Building envelopes, drives and utility runs on sandy loam that drains well, cleared to the ending your builder actually needs.

See Cut Brush in Action

Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.

  • Before & after project walkthroughs
  • Professional equipment on real jobs
  • See the land clearing process start to finish
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Peanut Fields, Pine Thickets and Sandy Loam

The Wiregrass takes its name from the long-stemmed grass of the longleaf pine country that once covered this corner of Alabama, and its farm history is written in the fields around Dothan: cotton first, then peanuts after the boll weevil, with harvests climbing from 41 million pounds in 1910 to 155 million by 1935. The ground under those fields is mostly the Dothan soil series itself, very deep and well drained, with a sandy loam surface on slopes of 0 to 15 percent. Where land is left alone here it does not stay open. Loblolly pine, sweetgum and oak seed into idle fields and fence rows, and a pasture forgotten for ten years becomes a thicket.

That makes most Wiregrass clearing a question of growth age and access rather than slope or rock. Ranges for every kind of work are on the Dothan pricing guide, the statewide picture is in our Alabama land clearing cost guide, and the Dothan figure specifically is broken down in the Dothan forestry mulching cost guide. Everything we do here is laid out on the Dothan services page.

Three Things That Decide a Dothan Job

Cogongrass travels on machines. The Alabama Forestry Commission lists cogongrass as a federally listed noxious weed and reports it in all 67 Alabama counties. It spreads through creeping rhizomes, and Alabama Extension advises cleaning equipment so those rhizomes are not carried to the next site, notes that disking generally does not control it, and warns that fire favors it. For a clearing job that means three things: patches get flagged at the walk-through, they are worked last or left alone for herbicide treatment, and the machine is cleaned before it rolls onto your land and before it leaves. A mulching head does not kill the plant; used carelessly it spreads it. The full order of work is in our cogongrass and land clearing guide.

Inside the city, commercial clearing needs a permit at any size. Dothan's stormwater ordinance, section 83-22, requires a city permit before land disturbing activity for non-residential development regardless of size, and for other work reaching an acre or part of a larger plan that does. Clearing is named in the definition. The application carries an erosion control plan in the format ADEM uses, the city can require a bond of up to $5,000 per acre, and its own form limits the work to a City of Dothan licensed contractor or the owner. Agriculture, silviculture and minor residential work are excepted. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination. The sequence is in the Dothan and Houston County permit guide.

A burn pile in town needs a machine of its own. Under section 38-32 of the Dothan code, material grown on a tract may be burned only in an air curtain destructor or other approved device, at a site the fire official approves, with an open burning permit, on days and hours the fire official sets. That is current as of September 2026. It changes the arithmetic of a quote directly: renting and staging a burner, or loading and hauling, both cost more than grinding the material where it stands. Outside the city the state burn permit still applies above a quarter acre.

Serving Dothan & the Wiregrass

Five Alabama counties, from Enterprise and Elba in the west to Abbeville and Headland in the east, and south through Geneva and Slocomb.

Dothan Ashford Cottonwood Columbia Webb Rehobeth Gordon Enterprise Elba Kinston Ozark Daleville Midland City Newton Level Plains Headland Abbeville Newville Geneva Slocomb Hartford Samson

Southeast Alabama Land Clearing Guides

Dothan Land Clearing FAQ

Inside the City of Dothan, possibly even on a small lot. Section 83-22 of the city code requires a permit before any land disturbing activity for non-residential development regardless of size, and for any other work disturbing an acre or more, or less than an acre when it is part of a larger plan reaching an acre. Clearing is named in the city's definition of land disturbing activity. Agriculture, silviculture and minor work around a home are excepted. The city can ask for a bond of up to $5,000 per acre. Outside the city limits, Houston County's Road & Bridge Department lists building, driveway, mobile home and utility permits, and the state's ADEM stormwater coverage starts at one acre. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction. Cut Brush can flag what commonly applies and help identify the right office, and the governing authority makes the determination. The Dothan and Houston County permit guide sets each rule beside its official source.
Most work quotes between $1,500 and $4,500 per acre. A light field edge or fence row pass sits near the floor, and whole-tract clearing with stumps out and a shaped finish sits near the ceiling. Wiregrass ground is mostly gentle and well drained, so what moves a Dothan number is how thick and old the growth is, how far the machine travels inside the property, and whether cogongrass on the tract changes the order of work. The Dothan pricing guide lists every range, the Dothan forestry mulching cost breakdown goes further on the mulching figure, and the walk-through that turns a range into a written number is free.
Not the way most people picture it. Section 38-32 of the Dothan code allows material grown on a tract to be burned only in an air curtain destructor or other approved device, at a site the fire official approves, under a valid open burning permit, on days and hours the fire official sets. A homeowner may burn leaves and limbs under three inches only where collection is not available. Statewide, the Alabama Forestry Commission permit still applies to burning more than a quarter acre or within 25 feet of woods or grass. Those rules are current as of September 2026. Grinding in place avoids all of it: there is no pile to build, permit or wait on.
No, and it is worth settling that before you buy clearing. Cogongrass spreads by creeping rhizomes underground, and Alabama Extension advises cleaning equipment to avoid carrying them, notes that disking generally does not control it, and describes herbicide over two or three years as what clears the rhizome layer. A mulcher cuts the top off and leaves the rhizomes. What good clearing does is keep it from spreading: patches are flagged and left for last or worked around, and the machine is cleaned before it arrives and before it leaves. Our cogongrass and land clearing guide covers the order of work in full.
Five Wiregrass counties. Houston including Dothan, Ashford, Cottonwood, Columbia, Webb, Rehobeth and Gordon. Dale including Ozark, Daleville, Midland City, Newton and Level Plains. Henry at Headland, Abbeville and Newville. Geneva at Geneva, Slocomb, Hartford and Samson. Coffee at Enterprise, Elba and Kinston. Central Alabama around Birmingham and North Alabama around Huntsville are separate Cut Brush service areas with their own pages. If your land is inside these five Alabama counties and your town is not listed, ask anyway.

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