San Antonio's Trusted Land Clearing & Brush Removal Experts

Forestry mulching, cedar clearing, and lot preparation across Bexar County and the Hill Country – juniper thickets, mesquite flats, and overgrown acreage opened in a single pass, with a free written quote up front.

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Land Clearing Before & After

Ground you cannot walk through, turned into ground you can drive across.

Dense understory closing in around mature trees before a clearing pass BEFORE
The same ground opened up with a mulch layer left behind AFTER
Acreage lost to thick brush and saplings BEFORE
Open, drivable acreage after a single mulching pass AFTER

What Our Customers Say

Real Cut Brush customers, in their own words.

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

– Jason M

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

– Carrie D.

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

– Tony & Lisa R.

Three Steps, One Machine, No Piles

Straight answers on the rules, a written number, then the work.

1

Check the Map, Then the Ground

Before we quote, we look at which aquifer zone the parcel sits in and which oaks you want kept. Then we walk it: stem size, rock, access, and what the finished ground needs to do.

2

Grind It Where It Stands

Tracked mulching equipment takes cedar, mesquite, and understory down to a mat on the spot. Nothing gets stacked, so a burn ban never puts your project on hold.

3

Walk Out on Covered Ground

You get usable land the day we finish, with the mulch layer holding thin Hill Country soil in place instead of bare dirt waiting on the next storm.

What We Take On Around San Antonio

From a cedar-choked half acre in Bulverde to raw ranch ground out past Hondo.

Land Clearing

Land Clearing

Ranchettes, homesites, and raw acreage opened across Bexar, Comal, and Kendall County, with the aquifer zone checked before anything gets scheduled.
Forestry Mulching

Forestry Mulching

One machine, one pass, cedar and brush turned into ground cover instead of a pile waiting on a burn ban to lift.
Cedar & Brush Work

Cedar & Brush Work

Ashe juniper thickets, mesquite flats, huisache, and prickly pear cut back so the grass and the oaks get their light back.
Lot & Homesite Prep

Lot & Homesite Prep

Building pads, drives, and utility runs opened on Hill Country lots, with heritage oaks left standing where the plan allows.

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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Cedar Grows Back Faster Than the Subdivisions Go Up

The San Antonio and New Braunfels metro passed 2.8 million people in 2025 and added close to 205,000 residents between 2020 and 2024, nearly 60% of them arriving from other states. Comal County alone grew more than 5% in a single year. Almost none of that land arrives ready. It arrives under Ashe juniper, mesquite, and a understory thick enough to hide a fence line.

Cut Brush opens that ground with land clearing for acreage, homesites, and pasture, and forestry mulching as the single-pass method behind most of it. Cost ranges for both live on the San Antonio pricing guide.

Three Things That Decide a Hill Country Clearing Job

Which aquifer zone you are standing on. The TCEQ Edwards Aquifer Protection Program treats land clearing as a regulated activity across eight counties, Bexar, Comal, and Medina among them, and a plan needs approval before soil moves on the recharge zone. In the contributing zone the trigger is five acres of disturbance, or a smaller piece of a plan that totals five. TCEQ publishes a viewer that answers the zone question in a minute.

Which trees the city counts. Inside San Antonio, the tree preservation section of the Unified Development Code protects significant trees at 6 inches diameter for most species, and sets a higher 10-inch bar specifically for Ashe juniper, mesquite, huisache, Arizona ash, and hackberry. Heritage trees start at 24 inches and are preserved at 100%. Completed single-family, two-family, and three-family homesites are exempt. Which of those rules touches your parcel is a question for the city; we flag it and point you at the right desk.

What month it is. Texas A&M Forest Service advises against pruning or wounding oaks from February through June, the stretch when oak wilt spreads most easily, and says to paint every oak wound immediately year round. Burn bans are the other calendar problem: Bexar County extended one for 90 days in February 2026, and a violation is a Class C misdemeanor with a fine up to $500. Grinding brush in place is how we take both problems off your schedule.

Serving San Antonio & the Texas Hill Country

Bexar County and the counties around it, from the US-281 corridor north to the ranch country south and west.

San Antonio Helotes Converse Elmendorf New Braunfels Bulverde Spring Branch Canyon Lake Seguin Schertz Cibolo Marion Boerne Comfort Castroville Hondo Floresville La Vernia Adkins Pleasanton Bandera

San Antonio Land Clearing FAQ

Often, yes, and it is the first thing to settle. Land clearing is named as a regulated activity by the TCEQ Edwards Aquifer Protection Program, which covers eight counties including Bexar, Comal, and Medina, and a plan has to be reviewed and approved before soil is disturbed on the recharge zone. In the contributing zone, the rule at 30 TAC 213.21(b) reaches projects disturbing five acres or more, or smaller projects that are part of a larger common plan that adds up to five acres. TCEQ publishes a map viewer so you can see which zone your parcel falls in, and we flag the question during the walk-through so the answer arrives before a machine is booked.
Most work quotes between $1,500 and $4,500 per acre. Light cedar regrowth and open pasture sit at the bottom of that band; heavy juniper, rock, and grade-ready finishes climb toward the top. The San Antonio pricing guide breaks down every range and the conditions that move a number, and the walk-through that turns a range into a written quote is free.
Yes, and it is worth planning around. Texas A&M Forest Service advises avoiding pruning or wounding oaks from February through June, when fungal mat production, sap beetle activity, and oak susceptibility all peak, and it recommends painting every oak wound immediately no matter the month. The dormant window from November through January is the safest time to touch an oak. Cedar, mesquite, and understory work is not bound by that calendar, so plenty of clearing still happens in spring; we just sequence the oak work around it.
Sometimes, and often not when you need to. Unincorporated Bexar County was under a burn ban extended in February 2026 for 90 days, and violating a county burn ban is a Class C misdemeanor carrying up to $500. Bans come and go with drought conditions, so the county alert center is the only reliable place to check on a given day. Mulching sidesteps the question entirely, because there is no pile to light.
Bexar County plus the ring around it: San Antonio, Helotes, Converse, and Elmendorf, then New Braunfels, Bulverde, Spring Branch, and Canyon Lake in Comal County, Seguin, Schertz, Cibolo, and Marion in Guadalupe County, Boerne and Comfort in Kendall County, Castroville and Hondo in Medina County, Floresville, La Vernia, and Adkins in Wilson County, plus Pleasanton and Bandera. If your parcel is in the area and your town is not on that list, ask anyway.

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