Land Clearing Bulverde, TX: Lot Clearing, Cedar Brush Removal and Forestry Mulching Services in Bulverde and Spring Branch

Land Clearing Services in Bulverde, TX

Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in Bulverde with a skid steer mulcher, a 300-hp mulcher and a dozer. I am a land clearing company serving this county from the ranch side, and every project is scoped in writing by canopy percent before a price is named.

• Site prep for a homesite, barn or shop, cleanup included
• Brush clearing with cedar mulched in place, 2 to 4 inches deep
• Selective clearing that keeps live oaks and the ridge view
• Full site clearing to dirt: grub, haul or pile, rough grading
• Stump grinding, $4 an inch, $175 minimum per stump
• Tree removal with haul-off, $650 to $1,200 a load
• Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites along US 281 and pipeline rows

Residential land clearing covers most days in Bulverde, TX and the surrounding area; commercial clearing for a commercial development runs the same rates. A professional land clearing service in Bulverde names the machine and the day count up front.

Lot Clearing for New Homes in Bulverde and Spring Branch

Bulverde issued 91 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, inside a county total of 1,726, down 24 percent. The lots are one to five acres and nearly all cedar. A half-acre pad is one skid steer day, $2,800, and we leave the site with mulch on the ground and nothing to haul. Site preparation here stops at rough grading. I do not do excavation for a foundation, pour concrete, drill wells or set septic. I know people who do.

The land clearing process on a lot here starts with the map. Much of Bulverde sits on the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, and TCEQ wants a Water Pollution Abatement Plan before site work on mapped recharge land. Drainage on these slopes is about where the sheet flow goes after the cedar is gone, so I grade the pad to send it to the natural draw. Rain in the Hill Country comes in two sizes: none and too much. Bring the plat and I will walk the property with you.

Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Bulverde

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch in a single pass, and it is the right tool for cedar on this side of US 281. The county judge declares burn bans most dry summers, TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles, and a mulched tract has no pile. The skid steer takes stems to about 8 inches; areas with dense old-growth cedar go to the 300-hp machine with the 8 ft head at 6 to 8 acres a day.

Cedar regrows from seed, not from the cut stump, so what you grind stays gone; the seedlings that follow fall to a bush hog every few years. AgriLife research shows a mature cedar canopy intercepts the first inch of every rain before it reaches the ground, and I have watched seeps return on tracts taken under 10 percent canopy. Mature cedar-oak canopy in Comal County is golden-cheeked warbler habitat, so that work waits past the March to July nesting window, and live oaks go unwounded February to June for oak wilt. Selective property clearing is the way to clear overgrown land here: remove brush, keep the oaks, make your property look like landscape instead of a wall of green.

Serving Bulverde, Spring Branch, Garden Ridge, Timberwood Park and Smithson Valley

Our crews run land clearing services across the greater San Antonio area, and Bulverde is the US 281 door into the north side of the San Antonio metro. Spring Branch, 10 minutes north, is the same cedar on steeper ground. Smithson Valley and Timberwood Park share the recharge rules. Garden Ridge, to the southeast, trades cedar for mesquite and hackberry on heavier soil. Services throughout the Hill Country run on one price sheet. On our jobs in Comal County the untouched tracts read 45 to 65 percent canopy. Property owners can read the Comal County page or the Hill Country region page.