Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching in Birmingham & Bloomfield, Michigan

The Main Branch of the Rouge River starts at the corner where Bloomfield Township meets Rochester Hills, runs south through Troy, and then curves through Birmingham as a chain of ravines and low banks on its way toward Southfield. Quarton Lake, on the city's west side, is the same river backed up behind an old mill dam. Bloomfield Hills and Bloomfield Township are the estate side of the ground we work: one- and two-acre lots and larger, bought decades ago for the woods that came with them, and the village of Franklin sits just over Bloomfield Township's southern line, its lots wooded the same way.

A ravine along the Rouge grows honeysuckle and box elder down both banks until the water is out of sight from the house above it, and an estate lot bought for its woods two generations ago has that much more understory in it now: buckthorn and cherry saplings under the oaks, thick enough that the woods have stopped looking like the reason the lot was bought. We clear the ravine banks from the top down, working from stable ground, and open the understory back out from under the canopy trees on the estate lots, so what is left is the woods the property was worth having in the first place.