PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, cedar removal, and forestry mulching services across Canyon Lake, TX and the Comal County hills. Our crews clear cedar, open views, and cut fire fuel from lake lots to Hill Country acreage, making the ground usable and safe again. Whether it is selective clearing around your good trees or a full clear cut, you get one crew, one honest price, and no burn piles left behind.
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Land clearing in Canyon Lake, Texas is steep country work, and it rewards machines and operators that know limestone. The cedar that covers the Comal County hills blocks the views people move here for and stacks up fire fuel around their homes, and clearing it right means working the grades without scarring the ground. Our tracked forestry mulchers do exactly that, taking cedar and scrub down to a mulch layer that holds the hillside together.
Around Canyon Lake, Sattler, Startzville, and Fischer we handle lake view clearing, defensible space and fire fuel reduction, cedar removal on acreage, lot clearing for new builds in the hill neighborhoods, and fence line corridors on the ranches back toward Fischer. No burn piles on the hillside, no haul trucks on the lake roads, and the oaks that frame the water stay right where they are.
Pricing is straightforward. Skid steer mulchers run $3,000 per day with transport included. High horsepower dedicated mulchers run $4,000 per day plus transport. Photos from your deck or onX pins get most Canyon Lake quotes done the same day, whether you are in Sattler, Startzville, Fischer, Hancock, or along the Backbone. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Canyon Lake, Sattler, Startzville, Fischer, and the Comal County hills.
Brush and small trees ground into soil-protecting mulch in one pass. No burning, no hauling.
Cut the fire load, free the water table, and open sightlines on cedar-choked ground.
Reclaim overgrown lots, pastures, and fence lines from mesquite and scrub.
Selective take-downs and stump grinding for clean, open ground.
Grubbing, grading, and pad prep that hands your builder permit-ready dirt.
Limestone and caliche crushed and milled on site into base material for drives, pads, and steep lot access.
Clean corridors for new fencing, utilities, and access roads.
Residential and commercial lots cleared, leveled, and ready.
Stock tanks and ponds dug, shaped, and finished right.
From half acre homesites to utility scale projects, the equipment and crew scale to the job.
Utility corridors, pasture reclamation, invasive cedar and mesquite removal, and prep for whatever you are planning next.
Lot clearing, grubbing, and pad prep that keeps your build schedule on track.
Mesquite and cedar removal, pasture and grazing recovery, fence lines, senderos, stock tanks, and ranch roads.
Multi lot and large acreage clearing with ground left ready for survey, permitting, and infrastructure.
Utility scale site clearing, vegetation removal, and access roads for solar projects across Central Texas.
Transmission lines, pipelines, and fence and utility row corridors cleared to spec and on schedule.
Parks, drainage easements, fire mitigation, and public land maintenance. Easy to work with on bids and compliance.
Senderos, food plots, feeder and blind access, and trail systems that make your property huntable again.
A lot of land clearing companies rent whatever the equipment yard has that week. We own purpose-built forestry machines and match them to your terrain. Not sure which machine your property needs? Try our cost calculator for an instant answer.
Our high horsepower dedicated mulchers run 300+ HP and chew through heavy cedar and mesquite at a pace no skid steer can match. That is how big tracts get cleared in days instead of weeks. We bring these machines when your material runs bigger than 8 inches in diameter and the property has access for an 11 foot wide machine.
For material up to 8 inches in diameter, our skid steer mulchers fill the gap. Subdivision lots, tree preservation, tight fence lines, and finish work around structures, they get in where the big machines cannot. Low ground pressure protects your topsoil, and they clear selectively around the oaks you want to keep.
The photos on this page come from recent cedar and caliche work in the hills around Wimberley and the Devil’s Backbone country, the same limestone, the same cedar, and the same machines we bring to Canyon Lake. Steep ground, rocky ground, and tight lake lots are all normal work for us out here.
Most recent Comal County project: July 2026
Send photos and property details for a fast quote, or meet us on-site and we will walk it with you. Either way you get a firm number, free.
Our crew and machines do the work, selectively and cleanly. The mulch stays right where it falls, protecting the soil and feeding the grass. No burn piles, and no haul off needed.
You get open ground, clean sightlines, and land you can actually use again. If your project calls for full site prep, we handle that too.
Every property is different, so price comes down to a few things: lot size or acreage, how thick the cedar is, slope and rock, what stays, and access. Transport to Comal County is built into the quote up front, so the number you get is the number you pay.
Most companies make you chase a number. Here is ours. The machine we bring depends on the size of your material and the access on your property.
Plus transport to your site
Transport included
Day rates help you budget. When you send photos or have us walk the property, you get a firm total for the whole job, free either way. For a deeper breakdown, read our guide on what it costs to clear land in Texas.
Highly recommend! The team at Pierce Land Clearing is very professional and offered fair pricing, brought top notch machinery, and provided excellent customer service.
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I had such a great experience with this team. Not only did they do a marvelous job but they are good people. Taylor is very personable, honest, with an amazing work ethic. His team is hardworking.
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They did exactly what we agreed on. Rare these days. Dustin showed up early and did a nice job. Great to work with.
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Canyon Lake is unincorporated, so there is no city permit office for most clearing. The two things worth knowing: the Army Corps of Engineers controls the land immediately around the lake below the fee line, so work near the shoreline needs their sign off, and many subdivisions carry deed restrictions on tree removal. Floodplain rules apply along the Guadalupe below the dam. We flag anything that needs attention when we quote the job.
Estimates usually happen within a few days of your call. Most residential jobs run one to three days on site, and larger acreage moves at several acres a day with the dedicated mulchers. One local quirk: the Blackland clay east of I-35 gets greasy after rain, so we watch the weather and schedule around it rather than tearing up your ground. You get a start window with your quote and a heads up before we roll in.
Skid steer mulchers run $3,000 per day with transport included, for material up to 8 inches in diameter. High horsepower dedicated mulchers run $4,000 per day plus transport, for heavy cedar and bigger acreage. Canyon Lake lots are usually a day or two of skid steer work, and acreage in the hills gets the big machines. Send photos for a real number, usually the same day.
That is the Canyon Lake signature job. We take the cedar and scrub between your place and the water, keep the oaks that frame the view, and leave a clean mulch layer instead of a scar. Send a photo from your deck and we can usually quote it from that.
Significantly. Cedar is the fuel that carries Hill Country wildfires, and thick stands close to a house are the biggest risk factor on most Canyon Lake properties. Clearing defensible space around structures is some of the most valuable work we do in Comal County.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the soil, holds moisture, and feeds the grass as it breaks down. There are no brush piles to burn and no haul off trucks to pay for, which is a big part of why mulching costs less than traditional clearing.
Steep and rocky is normal for Canyon Lake. Tracked machines handle grades that surprise people, and mulching heads work right over the limestone without gouging it. If a slope is genuinely beyond safe machine work we will tell you straight after seeing photos.
Rarely. Many Canyon Lake communities have rules about tree removal, and selective mulching fits them well: we take the cedar and scrub, keep the hardwoods, and the finished look is tidy. Flag your keep trees and we work to the plan.
Canyon Lake is an easy run down from our Austin yard and we work the corridor between San Marcos and New Braunfels constantly. Most jobs get on the calendar within a couple of weeks, and lot-size work can often slot in sooner.
Yes. Photos from your porch, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked will get most Canyon Lake quotes done the same day. Flag the oaks you love and the views you want and we will price the work.
Hilltop HomesiteHorseshoe Bay: one acre opened for a build with a view.See the full project →
5 Acres, Trails ReopenedLlano: impassable trails cleared and widened, cedar out.See the full project →
8 Acres, Homesite PrepSan Marcos: pad and driveway graded, cedar mulched for the views.See the full project →
4.2 Acres, SelectiveSan Antonio: heritage trees protected between a highway and new homesites.See the full project →
12 Acres Grubbed in San AntonioSan Antonio: 12 acres grubbed and reclaimed as usable pasture.See the full project →
18 Acres, SelectiveEvant: 18 acres thinned selectively, hardwoods left standing.See the full project →
Hunting Lane ClearingMelvin: hunting lanes cut and a new right of way opened.See the full project →
40 Acres, Full ClearBastrop County: cedar and yaupon off, pasture back in production.See the full project →
12 Acres, SelectiveGeorgetown: cedar out, every oak preserved.See the full project →
127 Acres for the LCRAElgin: a full clear on a public utility timeline, wrapped in 37 days.See the full project →
125 Acres ReclaimedElgin: overgrown pasture put back to work.See the full project →
38 Acre Commercial SiteBrownsville: cleared for development in six days.See the full project →
15 Acres of Solid CedarHico: thick cedar taken down to open ground.See the full project →
9 Acre Pasture ReclamationDale: brush out and grass coming back, two days on site.See the full project →
6 Acres Mulched CleanMorgan: downed trees and brush ground in place.See the full project →
3 Acre HomesiteLexington: cedar removed, pad ready for the builder.See the full project →
Cedar and Fence LinesLometa: three acres cleared with clean fence lines to match.See the full project →
Selective Homesite ClearCleburne: shade trees kept, everything else gone in a day.See the full project →Around the lake we cover Sattler, Startzville, Fischer, Hancock, and the Devil’s Backbone country. Close by we also serve New Braunfels, San Marcos, Wimberley, Blanco, and Seguin. Somewhere else in the Hill Country? Browse every area we serve or just call.
Quick quotes, competent operators, and top of the line equipment. Dedicated project managers who actually answer the phone, and a family business that actually cares about making customers happy.