Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, scrub oak thinning and wildfire fuel reduction across Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region.
Why Choose Us
Ground you could not walk through, turned into ground you can use.
Real Cut Brush customers, in their own words.
Amanda Elliott
Forestry Mulching
We hired Cut Brush for approximately three acres of forestry mulching and couldn't be happier. Communication was outstanding from the very beginning, the crew was professional and efficient, and we loved the regular updates and photos throughout the project. It's refreshing to work with a company that values communication and quality workmanship. Highly recommend!
Jessica Richardson
Brush Clearing
They did an amazing job getting rid of them pesky vines!
Stan Creech
Land Clearing
Greg did a fantastic job with our land that was overgrown with vines, brush and trees. It took about 1 1/2 days of constant work with the machine to get this 0.6 acres under control. Greg was here at 8am sharp, just as promised. Very professional and reliable. 100% satisfied customer! I highly recommend Cut Brush for land clearing.
A straightforward process from the first conversation to land you can use.
From a scrub oak thicket under the pines in Woodmoor to an elm-choked back lot in Fountain or a brushy acreage near Florence.
Offered across El Paso, Teller and Fremont counties. Brush, scrub oak and young trees are ground into chips where they stand, so there is no slash pile left to burn or haul.
An overgrown parcel or a lot gone wild with elm volunteers opened to the finish written in the quote, cleared to the ground so a builder can grade.
Oak thickets and ladder fuel taken out from under the ponderosa you keep, with the resprout and the follow-up mow written into the plan rather than left as a surprise.
A house spot, drive line and utility path cut through brush or oak on a wooded lot, with the acre line for city and county stormwater permits checked before work starts.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Cut Brush clears overgrown land for owners across El Paso, Teller and Fremont counties, from Monument and Black Forest in the pines to Fountain and Security-Widefield on the plains side, up the pass to Woodland Park and Divide, and south to Penrose and Florence. Most calls here are about one of four jobs: scrub oak and ladder fuel crowding a house near the forest edge, a lot that has filled with Siberian elm volunteers, an acreage gone to brush that the owner wants to walk again, or a homesite that needs a drive and a building spot opened.
The method behind most of it is forestry mulching: our crew runs one tracked machine that grinds brush and small trees into chips where they stand, so there is no slash pile to burn or truck away. Where the job is thinning rather than clearing, the pines and the healthy oak clumps you want kept are marked first and worked around.
What the price includes: brush, small trees and stumps ground into mulch on site, stumps flush with the ground and nothing hauled away. Full stump removal below grade and cut-and-haul for very large trees are discussed and priced in the quote; grading and build pads are not part of our price, since we clear to the ground so a builder can grade. Ranges for every kind of work are on the Colorado Springs pricing guide, the methods are set out on the Colorado Springs services page, and the statewide view is in our Colorado land clearing cost per acre guide.
Scrub oak is ladder fuel, and it comes back. The Woodmoor wildfire protection plan, signed by the Colorado State Forest Service, names Gambel oak, locally scrub oak, as the main understory shrub and fire ladder under Woodmoor's pines, and its shallow rhizomes send up numerous sprouts when the stems are removed. Mulching a thicket is a knockdown, not an ending, so the quote separates the first pass from the follow-up mow.
Where the chips land matters near a house. The State Forest Service's home ignition zone checklist says chipped slash should sit 30 feet or more from the home, with gaps of at least 3 feet between chip accumulations so the layer never runs continuous. Close to the house that can mean a thinner spread or some material moved, and it is planned at the walk-through. Whether a parcel meets a fire district's or an insurer's own standard is for that body to decide. For Siberian elm, the other plant that fills lots here, see our Siberian elm removal guide.
The acre line, and the city tree license. Inside Colorado Springs and in unincorporated El Paso County, a stormwater permit applies once clearing disturbs an acre or more, so the size of the cleared area is settled before work starts. The city also makes it unlawful to cut, prune or remove trees for hire, or to agree to, without a city tree service business license, issued after an exam set by City Forestry. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
El Paso, Teller and Fremont counties, from Palmer Lake and Monument in the north to Fountain, Penrose and Florence in the south, and from Calhan and Ellicott on the plains up to Cripple Creek and Victor.
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