Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, ladder fuel and creekside buckthorn clearing and lot preparation across the Missoula Valley and the lower Bitterroot.
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.
Whether it is crowded pine around a house in Lolo, a brushy creek bottom near Frenchtown or a wooded acreage outside Florence that needs a homesite opened.
Available around Missoula and out through the valley towns. Crowded young pine, brush and saplings are ground into chips where they grew, so there is no slash pile left to burn.
A timbered corner, an old hay field gone to brush or a pasture edge, opened to the line you set, with the stumps ground flush.
Small trees, low limbs and brush taken out from under the pines you keep, so a ground fire has less to climb toward the house.
Room for a house, a drive and a utility run opened on a wooded acreage, with the trees worth keeping marked first.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Outside the city, most land around Missoula is wooded acreage with a house on it. In Lolo, along the Bitterroot at Florence and Stevensville, and down the Clark Fork past Frenchtown and Alberton, the common problem is not a lot to build on but a stand that has grown in too thick: young pine, brush and low branches filling the space between the big trees and the walls of the house.
Our crew handles that with forestry mulching: one tracked machine grinds the crowded stems, brush and saplings into chips on the spot, so the thinning leaves no slash to pile or burn. We also offer land clearing, ladder fuel and understory thinning, and lot and homesite prep for a new build on acreage.
The other job that comes up here is along water. Common buckthorn, a thorny shrub that stays green after the native brush drops its leaves, grows along creeks and river banks in the valley, and it needs more than one visit. Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need.
Thinning a wooded lot is a judgment job as much as a machine job: which trees stay, how far apart, and how far out from the house the work should run. The quote settles those before anything is cut.
For the figures behind a thinning job, read the Missoula forestry mulching cost guide, and for slash law, burn seasons and statewide prices, the Montana land clearing cost guide.
The zone around the house comes first. A home ignition zone reaches up to 200 feet, worked in bands of 0 to 5, 5 to 30 and 30 to 100 feet, with ladder fuels removed and trees spaced in the outer band. A free state Home Wildfire Risk Assessment is available, and Missoula County's Wildfire Ready cost share begins with its own free assessment and pays approved contractors directly. Either assessment gives a quote a clear scope.
Creek banks carry a permit question. A 310 permit covers work that changes a perennial stream's bed or immediate bank, and one may be needed for removing vegetation within 50 feet of a river or creek. Inside the 1946 city limits the County administers it; outside them, the Missoula Conservation District. Burning needs a county permit, and clearing or grading an acre or more falls under DEQ's construction stormwater permit. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
Gravel and buckthorn set the pace. The Bigarm soils of western Montana's mountain valleys hold about 45 percent angular gravel at the surface, and rock wears mulching teeth. Along the water, common buckthorn is a state Priority 2A noxious weed that resprouts after cutting. Our Montana buckthorn removal guide sets out the visits, and the Missoula cost guide explains how thinning, gravel and the cost share shape a price.
Missoula County from Bonner and Clinton to Lolo and Frenchtown, Ravalli County at Florence and Stevensville, Arlee in Lake County and Alberton in Mineral County.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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