Boost Your Hunting Property: Benefits of Land Clearing & Mulching Feb 26, 2025

As any hunter or gamekeeper knows, the perfect hunting land is subtly cultivated to include sheltered trails, feed lots, watering holes, and bedding groves. It’s important for your game to feel safe, fed, and free to roam while you guide them toward areas that can be seen from your blinds or outdoor shooting locations.This means controlling forest overgrowth without impacting the ecosystem itself. The best way to craft the perfect hunting ground for deer and hunters is with professional land clearing and mulching services.Benefits of Land Clearing and Mulching for HuntingLand clearing allows you to create designated spaces like food plots and game trails when preparing a hunting ground. At the same time, mulching ensures that the delicate root system and soil nutrients continue to contribute to a healthy forest ecosystem. There are many benefits to mulching and land clearing when crafting the perfect hunting ground.Clearing New Food Plots—Clearing land down to the topsoil will create the perfect space to plant new food plots that will keep the deer coming back all year.Cutting or Shaping Game Trails—Clearing game trails gives deer easier access to foot plots and watering holes while ensuring their paths cross near your favorite blinds. Mulching makes a natural-feeling game trail that resists overgrowth for a year or more.Cutting Trails and Campgrounds—Hunters can also create human spaces on your hunting land by cutting mulched trails and clearing comfortable, well-placed campgrounds.Reclaiming Overgrown Spaces—If your game trails, foot plots, or other designated areas of your hunting grounds are becoming overgrown, reclearing them can restore the clarity and function of your land’s design, resulting in better hunts.Mulching the brush and ground cover clears out spaces where the deer can more comfortably travel, gather, and feed while ensuring the nutrients from the mulched brush return to the soil and leave the roots intact. Our methods ensure the long-term health of your hunting grounds by avoiding damage to feeder roots, protecting the soil with a layer of nutrient-rich mulch, and preventing rapid regrowth of cleared lands.Cost Breakdown of Land Clearing per AcreLand clearing is priced by acre and by land conditions. We will measure the overall acreage of the trails, plots, or campgrounds that will be cleared and mulched. Price-influencing factors include rocky conditions, hilly terrain, erosion, and tree removal.Once the conditions of your land are assessed, we can provide a personalized quote based on the total area you want cleared.How Often Should You Have Your Land ClearedMulching delays the re-emergence of overgrowth for at least a year. But over time, nature always finds a way. Depending on the local regrowth rate, it’s best to have your land cleared every few years.Most hunters find re-clearing game trails and open areas necessary every 3-5 years. However, if you detect the emergence of an invasive plant species, fresh mulching can help suppress its spread while reclaiming the nutrients for our soil and desired flora.What’s the Best Time of Year to Have Land Clearing Done for Hunting?Most hunters agree that the best time for land clearing and general forestry is late winter to early spring. The leaves are off during this time, and it’s easier to see everything you’re working with. You aren’t fighting fresh growth, and mulching goes smoothly.Clearing land in late winter to early spring also prepares the way for fresh new growth. Like trimming a flowering bush, land clearing can encourage growth by reducing competition for trees, shrubs, and food plot crops as they burst into new life in the spring.