Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching in Grand Blanc, Michigan

Grand Blanc is about fifty-five minutes from Royal Oak up I-75, one of the built-out suburbs on the south side of Flint along with Mundy Township next door toward Swartz Creek. Thread Creek, a tributary of the Flint River, runs south to north through the township and through the subdivisions that have replaced most of the old farm sections. The township’s history as farm ground before it was subdivided still shows up in the tree lines and drainage patterns that cut across the newer streets. Grand Blanc Township was once much larger, and Atlas, Burton, Davison and Fenton townships were all organized out of pieces of it over the years, which is part of why the roads and section lines still tie the whole south side of the county together.

Subdivisions built over the last few decades left the usual pattern behind: outlots, retention pond banks and the Thread Creek corridor itself grow buckthorn and Callery pear every year, and backyards that back onto the creek or a drain fill in with box elder and wild grape. What farmland is still worked around the township edges keeps its own fence lines and hedgerows, which need the same clearing as any farm county once they get away from a landowner for a few seasons. Even the older farmsteads that got surrounded by newer subdivisions still have their original windbreaks and fence rows, and those need clearing the same as any working farm once nobody is keeping them up. We grind it all flat and leave a mulch layer that can be mowed.