Land Clearing & Forestry Mulching in Grosse Ile, Michigan

Grosse Ile is an island township in the Detroit River, about forty-five minutes from Royal Oak and reached only by the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge from Riverview at the north end or the Wayne County Bridge, known locally as the Free Bridge, from Trenton. Riverview and Trenton sit across the channel to the west and Gibraltar lies to the south, with Ontario visible across the river to the east. The main island is really two islands split by the Thorofare Canal, and the township also holds smaller islands including Hickory, Meso and Elba, plus uninhabited river islands such as Calf, Stony and Sugar that are now part of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge. East River Road and West River Road trace the shoreline on either side of the main island, and the Thorofare Canal that splits the island is itself lined with the same wooded lots.

The interior of Grosse Ile stayed wooded and farmed longer than almost anywhere else this close to Detroit, first because it was mostly private estates and later because the U.S. Naval Air Station occupied a large piece of it from 1929 until 1969. What is left is wooded shoreline lots that grow buckthorn and grapevine down to the water the way any river lot does, plus scattered parcels of old airfield and estate ground that still need fence lines opened and brush taken back. Even the parcels that were never part of the airfield or the old estates carry their share of overgrown fence line, since an island this quiet grows in fast the moment a property sits unattended for a season. We work every bank on the island from stable ground and leave the chip layer to hold the slope.