Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching in Linden, Michigan

Linden is about an hour north of Royal Oak, close enough to Fenton that the two are really one lake-country community split by a city line, with Argentine Township wrapping around Linden to the south and west. The unincorporated community of Argentine sits on Lobdell Lake in the southeast of the township, and the ground around Linden itself is low and wet by nature: marsh, old swamp ground and lake bottoms that were dredged for marl a century ago, the same character that shapes so much of this part of Genesee County. The marl that came out of those lake bottoms left behind soft, low ground that still shapes where houses, roads and farm fields can go today.

That lowland character means the brush here leans wet: cattail, dogwood and willow in the marsh edges and old marl flats, buckthorn and box elder on the drier lake lots around Lobdell Lake, and autumn olive on whatever old pasture is left between the subdivisions. Field edges that used to be farmed right up to the fence line have crept in with brush over the years, and the wooded splits between Linden and Fenton are still being cleared for new houses. Even the drier ground between the wetlands carries its share of old fence line and hedgerow, since Argentine Township was farmed the same way the rest of southern Genesee County was before the lake lots and subdivisions came in. We work the wet ground on frozen days and the upland lots any time of year.