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Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching in Dexter, Michigan
Forestry mulching, brush hogging and lot clearing in Dexter and Dexter Township, about 55 minutes from our base in Royal Oak.
Dexter is hilly lake-and-river country fifty-five minutes from Royal Oak: the Huron River through Hudson Mills and Dexter-Huron metroparks, Portage, Silver, Half Moon and North lakes, part of the Pinckney Recreation Area, and the Border-to-Border Trail along the river. The private ground is river lots, lake lots, one- to ten-acre wooded parcels along Dexter-Pinckney, North Territorial and Island Lake roads, and horse farms toward Webster Township.
Bush honeysuckle and buckthorn are the Dexter job. They form a solid understory under the oaks along the river and around the lakes until a lot that was open woods is a thicket you cannot see through, and the banks grow grapevine and box elder to the water. We grind the understory flat around the trees you keep, walk and plan the banks on site, and leave a chip layer that holds the slope with nothing to haul out through the side yard.
Where we work in Dexter and Dexter Township: the City of Dexter, Dexter Township, Dover, Hudson Mills, North Lake and the Dexter-Pinckney, North Territorial, Island Lake, Dexter-Chelsea, Mast and Huron River Drive corridors.
Common Jobs in Dexter and Dexter Township
- Honeysuckle and buckthorn removal under the oaks on wooded lots and river frontage.
- Huron River, Portage Lake and Silver Lake banks, brush taken down to a chip layer that holds the slope.
- Hunting parcels bordering Pinckney Recreation Area: trails, lanes and plots.
- Pasture and paddock reclamation on the horse farms toward Webster Township.
- Wooded building sites on the dirt roads, cleared to the footprint and drive with the oaks left.
Questions We Hear in Dexter
Will the honeysuckle come back after mulching?
Mulching grinds it to the ground and shreds the root crowns, which sets it back hard. A mowing or spot follow-up plan in the first two summers keeps the regrowth down, and our invasive plants guide explains it species by species.
Can you clear the bank down to the river?
Yes. The Huron banks around Dexter are steep, so we work from the top down on firm ground and leave the chip layer on the slope to hold it through the spring rise. The shade trees over the water stay.
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