PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and lot clearing services across San Marcos, TX and Hays County. From in-town lots to river country tracts, every clearing photo on this page is from our own San Marcos jobs. 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 San Marcos, Texas comes with local photos attached: our own grub and mulch jobs inside the city, ground on this page from heavy roots to clean finish. Between the university, the river, and the corridor growth, San Marcos land moves fast, and clearing has to keep up without burning anything or trucking debris through town.
Around San Marcos, Kyle, Martindale, and Maxwell we handle lot and tract clearing, cedar removal on the west side, brush and mesquite clearing on the east side, river frontage understory work, pile grinding, and fence line clearing on acreage. Everything grinds in place into mulch, and haul off is generally not needed with mulching.
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 or a survey get most San Marcos quotes done the same day, whether you are near campus, out toward Martindale, or up the Devil’s Backbone. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving San Marcos, Kyle, Martindale, Wimberley, and the Hays County growth corridor.
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 building sites.
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.
Every clearing photo on this page is from our own San Marcos area jobs, led by our 8 acre homesite prep and selective clearing project in San Marcos, where our dozer cleared and graded the house pad and driveway and our mulcher opened up the Hill Country views. The carousel below leads with that write up, and our selective clearing work at San Antonio and Dale sits right behind it.
Most recent Hays County area 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 heavy the growth is, what stays, and access. San Marcos is home range, 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.
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They did an excellent job and were highly effective and the price was an incredible value. I am so thankful for them and will use them for all of my forestry needs.
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San Marcos protects heritage trees inside the city limits, larger hardwoods need city sign off on development projects, and the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone west of town carries state level rules for construction work. Brush and cedar clearing on residential and ag land generally needs nothing, and floodplain rules run serious along the San Marcos and Blanco rivers. We flag exactly what applies when we quote your 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 growth and larger tracts. Most San Marcos lots run a day or two. Send photos and you will usually have a real number the same day.
Yes, and every clearing photo on this page proves it: our own San Marcos jobs, from dozer grub work to mulching down the piles it left behind. This is not a city we drive through, it is one we work in.
Both, because the ground splits at the Balcones fault right in town. West toward Wimberley is Hill Country cedar on limestone. East toward Martindale is blackland and river bottom. The machines match the side: tracked mulchers on the rock, fast skid steers on the flats.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the soil and holds moisture, and existing piles grind where they sit, exactly like the ones photographed on this page. No burning, and generally no haul off.
Constantly. San Marcos is the spine of the fastest growing corridor in America, and we clear subdivision tracts, pad sites, student housing ground, and utility corridors on builder timelines with commercial insurance in place.
Carefully, yes. The San Marcos and Blanco rivers carry serious floodplain rules and even more serious neighbors, and we clear understory and trash growth while keeping the cypress and pecans that make river frontage worth owning.
San Marcos is home range on the corridor loop with New Braunfels, Wimberley, and Lockhart. Most jobs get on the calendar within a couple of weeks.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or a survey with the areas marked will get most San Marcos quotes done the same day. Flag your keep trees and we will price around them.
8 Acres, Homesite PrepSan Marcos: pad and driveway graded, cedar mulched for the views.See the full project →
5 Acres, Trails ReopenedLlano: impassable trails cleared and widened, cedar out.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 →
Hilltop HomesiteHorseshoe Bay: one acre opened for a build with a view.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 →From San Marcos we cover Kyle, Martindale, Maxwell, and both sides of the interstate. Close by we also serve Wimberley, Buda, Lockhart, New Braunfels, and Canyon Lake. Somewhere else on the corridor? 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.