Land Clearing
Brush, undergrowth and small trees cleared off lots and acreage with forestry mulchers and brush rakes, leaving ground you can use.
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Land around Springfield grows back fast. The McKenzie River forms the north city limits, and the Middle Fork Willamette comes in from the south. The bottomland between them holds moisture well into spring, so brush puts on height every year. Himalayan blackberry moves in first, and a fence line or back pasture can close up in three or four seasons.
Willamette Valley Land Clearing is based in Lebanon, about an hour north of Springfield. Land clearing is the main job: brush, undergrowth and small trees off lots and back acreage. We also do forestry mulching, field mowing, brush and blackberry work, and driveways that brush has closed in. Call or text (541) 936-4687 and we will come look at the property, then give you a free estimate.
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Springfield spreads east and south into small acreage country. Thurston sits at the east edge on Highway 126, with the Thurston South Hills rising behind it. The Jasper Natron area southeast of Main Street is still mostly open ground inside the city's growth boundary. Northeast of town the Mohawk Valley runs up toward Marcola, where farms average under twenty acres.
Those Mohawk Valley places run to timber, hay, Christmas trees and hazelnuts. The same pattern repeats all over this end of Lane County. A house sits on five or ten acres, and the back half has not been touched in years. Brush and small trees have taken the field, and the property line is somewhere under the blackberry.
Our Bobcat skid steer carries a forestry mulcher head and a heavy brush mower. The excavator carries its own mulching head and a brush rake for heavier material and root balls. Stumps come out with the excavator as part of the clearing job. On a building lot, we clear the footprint and the access and leave the trees you want kept.
Springfield is boxed in by rivers. The McKenzie runs along the north side of the city. South of town the Middle Fork Willamette meets the Coast Fork and forms the Willamette. Dorris Ranch sits on that bottomland, the first commercial filbert orchard in the country.
Those flats carry Chehalis silty clay loam, Newberg fine sandy loam and gravelly Camas ground. They grow blackberry the way they grow hazelnuts. A field left alone for two or three years comes back as a solid mass of cane.
Blackberry removal on this ground is machine work. We mulch the top growth down, then pull root crowns with the excavator and brush rake. Cutting alone does not finish it, because the plant regrows from crowns and deep roots. Holding a field open after that takes repeat mowing or mulching on a schedule.
The McKenzie corridor east of town is why wildfire is a live topic here. On September 7, 2020, the Holiday Farm Fire started about three miles west of McKenzie Bridge. It ran roughly twenty miles down the river through Blue River, Vida, Nimrod and Leaburg. It burned about 173,000 acres and destroyed more than 900 structures.
Springfield's east side runs straight into that country. Thurston, Cedar Flat and Walterville sit along Highway 126 with hills right behind them. Houses out there back onto brush, dry grass and timber. Defensible space clearing means cutting those fuels back off the house and the shop.
The work is grass knockdown, brush removal and taking out the small trees and ladder fuels under the bigger ones. Timing matters more here than in town. The Oregon Department of Forestry's South Cascade District covers eastern Lane County, and fire season typically opens in June. Regulated use and industrial fire precaution levels can limit power equipment hours, so we plan around them.
Springfield grew up on lumber. Booth-Kelly bought the sawmill here in 1901 and worked timberland all around the region. Weyerhaeuser opened its Springfield complex in 1949, and the sawmill and plywood plants closed in the 1990s. The old Hayden Bridge over the McKenzie carried the Marcola lumber line and is a footbridge now.
That history is still in the ground. Old skid roads, replanted stands and grown over property lines turn up on a lot of Springfield acreage. Clearing it is mostly a question of what is standing and how the machines get in.
A job here starts with a call or a text. We come look at the ground, talk through what you want left standing, then give you a free estimate. Oregon typically requires utility locates through 811 with two business days notice, and we plan the schedule around that. Burning has its own rules in Lane County, so mulching the material in place usually saves you the trouble.
Communities and areas we serve around Springfield: Thurston, Gateway, Glenwood, Washburne Historic District, Q Street, Mid-Springfield, East Main, East Kelly Butte, Jasper-Natron, Mohawk Valley, Marcola, Walterville.
Springfield ZIP codes served: 97475, 97477, 97478, 97482.
Free estimates throughout Lane County and the surrounding area.
(541) 936-4687 Brush, undergrowth and small trees cleared off lots and acreage with forestry mulchers and brush rakes, leaving ground you can use.
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A mulcher head grinds brush and small trees into chips in one pass. You get the ground back under a layer of chips.
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We clear thick brush, undergrowth and small trees off lots, field edges, fence lines and back acreage. The material gets mulched in place or raked into a pile.
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We clear Himalayan blackberry off fields, fence lines, yards and back acreage with mulcher heads. Blackberry regrows from its root crowns, so we plan the follow-up mowing with you.
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We brush hog overgrown fields, pasture and heavy weeds with a skid steer brush mower. Free estimates across the mid-Willamette Valley from our base in Lebanon.
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We clear homesites and building lots before construction starts. Brush, small trees and stumps come off the footprint and the access.
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Driveways, farm lanes and access roads that brush has closed in, opened back up. We cut the edges and the overhead, then mulch what comes off.
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We clear brush, blackberry and small trees back from homes, shops and barns. Machine work across the mid-Willamette Valley, with free estimates.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Springfield. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us where the property is and what you want cleared, and we will set up a look at it. You can also call or text (541) 936-4687.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.