Brush has a way of sneaking up on a property. One year it’s a few shoots along the ditch, and a few years later you can’t get a mower down the fence line. Around Roosevelt, the usual suspects are Russian olive and tamarisk along water, plus kochia, spurge, and cheatgrass anywhere the ground has been disturbed.
Our brush clearing in Roosevelt cuts all of that back to a clean, manageable state without scraping your ground bare. We use hand tools near buildings and sprinklers and machines on open acreage, then haul the cuttings off. It also cuts down on the dry fuel sitting near your house and outbuildings. The result is a property you can walk, mow, irrigate, and keep up with again.
We know which Uintah Basin plants grow back from roots, which spread by seed, and how to clear each one so it stays down.
Hand tools for tight spots and machine cutters for open acreage, so every part of your property gets the right treatment.
We'll tell you which brush is worth clearing now, which can wait, and which trees are better left standing as windbreaks.
Cuttings get loaded and hauled away, and we rake up the small stuff so you're not left with a mess.
Roosevelt sits at 5,197 feet in a semi-arid stretch of the Uintah Basin, and that combination dries brush out fast. Cheatgrass is green for a few weeks in spring, then turns into brittle tinder by early summer. Kochia goes woody and tumbles across fields when the wind picks up. Dead material piles up inside overgrown shrubs year after year.
None of that is a big problem out in the middle of a field. It becomes one when it’s growing right up against a house, a haystack, a shop wall, or a fuel tank. Clearing a buffer of open ground around the buildings you care about is one of the simplest things you can do on a rural property.
If your property has a ditch, canal, or wet spot, odds are good it has Russian olive or tamarisk on it. Both trees love water, both spread aggressively, and both form thorny thickets that crowd out everything else. Left alone, they can choke a ditch, catch debris during irrigation season, and make it hard to reach a headgate.
Cutting the young growth is straightforward. Older trees with thick trunks are a bigger job, and for those our tree and stump removal work takes out the trunk and deals with the root crown, which is where most of the regrowth comes from.
We don’t clear every square foot the same way. The method depends on what’s growing, what’s nearby, and what you want left standing:
Most properties end up getting a mix of these, and we’ll walk through which areas get which approach before we start.
Brush can be cleared most of the year, but some windows are better than others. Late fall and early spring are great for ditch banks, since the water is off and equipment can get close without tearing up wet ground. Cutting before weeds set seed also means fewer of them next year.
Summer is doable, with some care. July highs around 93°F and dry wind mean a steel blade striking rock can start a fire in dry grass, so on the hottest afternoons we move work to cooler hours or switch to methods that don’t throw sparks.
Roosevelt has plenty of working properties: oilfield shop yards, equipment lots, hay ground, and pastures for cattle and sheep. Brush on those places isn’t just about looks. It hides rusted metal that can cut a tire, gives rodents somewhere to live near feed, and makes it harder to see what’s sitting in the back of the yard.
Clearing often turns up old piles nobody has looked at in years. When that happens, debris hauling can load out the scrap, pallets, and junk at the same time, so the whole yard gets cleaned up in one push.
A first clearing takes care of years of growth. Keeping it that way is much easier. Russian olive and tamarisk tend to sprout from stumps and roots, so those spots need a check the following season. Shrubs and grasses that get trimmed back once or twice a year never get the chance to turn woody again.
The weeds that rush into fresh openings are the other half of the battle. Pairing brush clearing with weed control helps keep kochia, bindweed, spurge, and goatheads from claiming the ground you just opened up, and it makes the next round of upkeep on your Roosevelt property a lot lighter.
We walk the property with you, note ditches, fences, sprinklers, and keeper trees, and look at how equipment can get in.
Your written quote lays out the areas to clear, the methods we'll use, and how the cuttings will be hauled off.
We cut brush by hand or machine as each area needs, keeping roots in place to hold soil and dust down.
We walk the cleared areas together, point out spots likely to resprout, and talk through a plan for upkeep.
