22 Acre Cedar Clearing in Jacksboro, Texas

Twenty two acres in Jack County that a new owner had just bought and could barely walk. Cedar and undergrowth had taken the whole place. Seven days later it was open country again, with every heritage tree still standing and the creek untouched.

Open ground with the heritage oaks kept after selective cedar clearing in Jacksboro Texas

What the new owner bought

Cedar does this to North Texas rangeland. Left alone for long enough it closes ranks, shades out the grass, and turns useful acreage into something you cannot get a vehicle through, let alone run stock on.

That is what twenty two acres of this place had become by the time it changed hands. The bones of a good property were all still there. They were just buried.

Selective, at scale

Twenty two acres is enough ground that the temptation is to just take everything and move fast. That was not the brief. The hardwoods worth keeping had to come through untouched, and there is a creek running through the property that the machine had to respect.

So the work was selective the whole way: cedar and undergrowth out, heritage trees left, and the creek and its banks given room. Seven days at that scale is quick, and it is quick because the machine is right for the job, not because corners were cut.

Challenges on this Jacksboro property

Before and after

Land clearing around Jacksboro

We work the country around Jacksboro regularly, across Jack County and the counties next to it.