Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, shelterbelt and buckthorn clearing and lot preparation across Fargo-Moorhead and the Red River Valley.
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 a dying windbreak on a Casselton farmstead, buckthorn in the riverside woods near Oxbow or an overgrown acreage outside Moorhead.
Offered across Cass and Richland counties and over the river in Clay County, Minnesota. Old tree rows, brush and young trees ground into mulch where they stood, with nothing to burn or haul.
A worn-out shelterbelt, an overgrown farmstead yard or a strip of river timber taken back to the line you choose, with stumps ground flush.
A single dying row, fence-line brush or a buckthorn understory cut out from the trees you keep, with the sprouts that follow planned for in the quote.
A house spot, drive and utility path opened on an acreage around Horace, Kindred or Glyndon, with the floodplain question asked before the lines are drawn.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Cut Brush clears overgrown land for owners around Fargo, from West Fargo, Horace and Kindred to Casselton and Argusville, and across the Red River in Moorhead, Dilworth and Glyndon. On this flat valley floor the trees are mostly ones somebody planted: farmstead windbreaks and field rows now past their working life. The rest grow along the Red River and its tributaries, where buckthorn fills the understory.
Most of the work is forestry mulching. Our crew grinds old rows, brush and small trees into mulch where they grew, so nothing is left to burn, pile or haul. We also offer land clearing, shelterbelt row and buckthorn clearing, and lot and homesite prep.
A windbreak is usually worth renovating rather than erasing. NDSU Extension notes that renovation usually means removing or adding trees or rows, and that the local Soil Conservation District or the North Dakota Forest Service can evaluate a windbreak and talk through cost-share. Our crew takes out the rows that have to go and leaves the ones still doing their job. Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need.
Clearing in the valley is rarely a whole woodlot. It is a row here, a belt there, a riverbank strip or a farmstead yard gone wild, and the method has to deal with the wood as well as the trees.
Want a number first? The Fargo forestry mulching cost guide compares a single row, an old belt and an acre of river brush, and the North Dakota land clearing cost guide covers the rest of the state, from the Drift Prairie to the Badlands.
Fargo clay sets the calendar. NRCS describes the Fargo series as very deep, poorly drained lakebed clay, typically 40 to 60 percent clay, with a seasonal water table from the surface to three feet down from March through July. A tracked machine ruts it in a wet spring, so late summer, fall and frozen ground are the cheap windows for the same job.
Ash and elm wood carry rules. Emerald ash borer was confirmed inside Fargo in January 2026 and found again north of Mapleton in July. Cass County is inside the state quarantine, which regulates hardwood firewood, ash logs, branches and wood chips leaving it, with civil penalties up to $5,000. In Fargo, an elm with Dutch elm disease on private land is the owner's to remove promptly. Wood mulched where it grew stays put.
Riverside ground is floodplain. The City of Fargo's floodplain development permit covers fill, grading, excavation and drainage work in the mapped floodplain, so ask the city before stumps are pulled or a riverbank lot is reshaped; mulching leaves the ground as it lies. In Moorhead and the other Minnesota towns, ask the city or Clay County. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination. Buckthorn is the usual reason for clearing along the river; our buckthorn removal guide explains why it takes more than one visit.
Cass and Richland counties in North Dakota and Clay County in Minnesota, from Argusville and Casselton down to Kindred and Abercrombie, and from Moorhead east to Hawley and Barnesville.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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