4 Acre Selective Clearing in Paige, Texas

Four acres in the Lost Pines country around Paige, cleared of yaupon and cedar so cattle could get through it again. Every tree on the place stayed. One day on site.

Open ground under the pines after selective clearing opened up cattle access in Paige Texas

Yaupon under the pines

Paige sits in the Lost Pines, the stand of loblolly that runs through Bastrop County and stops well short of the East Texas piney woods. It is good country, and it grows yaupon underneath the canopy about as fast as anywhere we work.

On this place the yaupon and cedar had filled in far enough that cattle could not move through parts of the property. The grass was still there. The access was not.

Everything stays except the brush

The brief was simple and absolute: every tree on the property stays. Yaupon and cedar come out, the pines and hardwoods do not get touched.

That is exactly what a mulcher in the right hands is for. The machine works the understory at ground level and threads between the trunks, and what it leaves behind is a mulch layer that feeds the ground rather than a scraped surface that washes.

Before and after

Land clearing around Paige

We work the country around Paige regularly, across Bastrop County and the counties next to it.