Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, piñon-juniper thinning and Russian olive clearing across Los Alamos and Northern New Mexico.
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 piñon crowding a house on Tano Road, Russian olive along an arroyo near Española or a wooded lot outside Chimayo where a homesite needs clearing.
Offered from Los Alamos and White Rock down to Española and the Santa Fe foothills. Piñon, juniper and brush ground to chips where they stood.
A back acre, a field edge gone to brush or a pasture taken back from juniper, cleared back to the line you choose, stumps ground level.
Crowded piñon, juniper and brush thinned out around a house so the trees you keep stand apart, with the spacing written into the quote.
Room cleared on a wooded lot for the house, the drive and the utility lines, with every tree worth keeping marked first.
Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.
Up on the mesas, in Los Alamos and White Rock, lots are small and many end at a canyon rim. Down the hill, in Española, El Rancho and Chimayo and across the Santa Fe County communities from Las Campanas and Tano Road to Agua Fria and La Cienega, parcels are larger, and the piñon and juniper on them often stand closer to the house than the owner would like.
Our crew works that ground with forestry mulching: a tracked machine grinds the crowded trees, brush and saplings into chips where they stand, so a thinning leaves nothing to stack, haul or burn. We also offer land clearing, piñon-juniper and understory thinning, plus lot and homesite prep where a new house is going in.
Along the drainages, windbreaks and lot edges the other job is Russian olive, a thorny tree with silvery leaves that comes back from its roots and needs more than one visit; the New Mexico Russian olive removal guide explains why. Request a free quote; we'll contact you to discuss your property, access and the clearing you need.
Thinning around a house comes down to which piñon and juniper stay, how much room ends up between their crowns and how far from the walls the work reaches, all settled before the machine is unloaded.
For what a thinning costs against a full clear, read the Los Alamos forestry mulching cost guide, and for burn rules, juniper and prices across the state, the New Mexico land clearing cost guide.
Defensible space starts at the walls. In Los Alamos County, keep tree branches at least 10 feet from other trees and use gravel, pavers or other noncombustible material in the first five feet around the home. In Santa Fe County, the Fire Department's Defensible Space Program, set under Ordinance 2023-06 and the 2021 International Wildland Urban Interface Code, lets owners in wildland urban interface areas ask for a letter on how far the property complies. The county issues it; our crew thins to the scope you choose.
Mesas and canyon rims set the access. Los Alamos sits on the Pajarito Plateau, which runoff from the mountains has cut into long, thin mesas separated by canyons. A rim lot can have room for the machine on top and none on the slope below it. Any slope our machine cannot work safely stays out of the scope, and you hear that before the job is booked.
Burning and stormwater have their own rules. Open burning in Los Alamos County needs the fire department's permit, which covers only La Senda and Pajarito Acres. Clearing that disturbs an acre or more falls under EPA's construction stormwater permit. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction, and the governing authority makes the determination.
Los Alamos and White Rock in Los Alamos County, Santa Fe County from El Rancho and Chimayo to Las Campanas, Agua Fria and La Cienega, and Rio Arriba County from Española north to Los Luceros and Dixon.
Request a free quote. We'll contact you to discuss your property, access, and the clearing you need.
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