Land Clearing
Brush, undergrowth and small trees cleared off lots and acreage with forestry mulchers and brush rakes, leaving ground you can use.
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Silverton sits where the Willamette Valley floor runs into the Cascade foothills. Land here grows back fast. Wet winters and deep red clay soil push blackberry, brush and young fir into every open edge. A pasture off Evans Valley Road or a field corner near Pratum can close in within a few seasons.
Willamette Valley Land Clearing is based in Lebanon and covers the mid-Willamette Valley, Silverton and Marion County included. Land clearing is the main work: brush, undergrowth, small trees and stumps pulled off lots and acreage. We also run forestry mulching, brush hogging and blackberry clearing with the same machines. Call or text (541) 936-4687 for a free estimate.
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Silverton sits at about 270 feet. South of town the wooded Waldo Hills climb, and the Silverton Hills toward Drakes Crossing run past 1,500 feet. That ground holds Douglas fir, bigleaf maple and Oregon white oak, with brush filling in underneath. The soil is the red clay the foothills around this valley are known for.
Small acreage up here goes from open to closed in a hurry. Christmas tree ground that stopped being farmed fills with blackberry and young fir. Old pasture edges creep in until the usable part of the place shrinks. Our Bobcat skid steer and excavator both carry mulcher heads, so brush and undergrowth clearing happens in one pass.
Marion County is second in Oregon for Christmas tree acreage, with more than 7,700 acres in 2023. A lot of that sits in the hills above Silverton, off Abiqua Road, Victor Point Road and Silver Falls Drive. When a block comes out of production, the brush moves in fast.
West of Silverton the land flattens into Howell Prairie, between the Little Pudding and the Pudding rivers. Pratum, Central Howell and North Howell sit out there. It is grass seed, nursery and hazelnut country, cut up by ditches, fence lines and field corners. Silverton calls itself Oregon's Garden City for a reason, and the nursery trade built the Oregon Garden here in 1999.
Himalayan blackberry is the plant that takes those edges. Oregon lists it as a Class B noxious weed, and it is all over the western side of the state. Canes root where the tips touch down, and the woody root crown sends up new shoots after cutting. That is why one pass with a mower rarely holds.
We mulch the mass down and pull root balls with the excavator where it makes sense. Blackberry removal holds when the ground gets mowed or mulched again on a schedule. We do not spray, so repeat cutting is the control. Field mowing on a yearly pass keeps reclaimed ground open.
The city of Silverton covers about 3.5 square miles. The 97381 ZIP code covers more than 100. Most of the ground that needs clearing sits outside the city limits. It is on lanes off Abiqua Road, Evans Valley Road, Victor Point Road and Silver Falls Drive.
Long rural driveways close in from both sides. Blackberry and fir limbs narrow the track until a truck scrapes on the way in. Opening up an overgrown driveway means cutting brush back past the gravel and clearing sight lines at the road. Fence lines get the same treatment when a fence needs work.
Silverton keeps adding people, from 9,222 residents in 2010 to 10,484 at the 2020 census. New builds on rural parcels start by taking brush, small trees and stumps off the footprint and the access. Oregon typically requires a call to 811 for utility locates before ground disturbing work. We clear the ground and stop there, and the dirt work crew picks it up next.
Silverton felt the 2020 Labor Day fires. During the Beachie Creek Fire the town sat at a Level 2 evacuation notice before it dropped to Level 1. Scotts Mills, seven miles northeast, was at Level 3. That put fuel around houses on a lot of minds around Silverton.
Defensible space clearing cuts brush, small trees, ladder fuels and dry grass back from a house, shop or barn. On a wooded Silverton homesite that usually means thinning the understory and opening ground near structures. Mulching leaves chips on the ground instead of a pile waiting on a burn day.
The Oregon Department of Forestry North Cascade District covers Marion County. Its fire season typically brings regulated use limits on power saws and on mowing cured grass. Marion County also holds backyard burning to set windows under its yard debris rules. We plan the work around what is in effect when we are there.
Communities and areas we serve around Silverton: Downtown Silverton, Abiqua Creek, Evans Valley, Victor Point, Drakes Crossing, Silverton Hills, Waldo Hills, Howell Prairie, Central Howell, Pratum, Scotts Mills, Mount Angel.
Silverton ZIP codes served: 97381.
Free estimates throughout Marion County and the surrounding area.
(541) 936-4687 Brush, undergrowth and small trees cleared off lots and acreage with forestry mulchers and brush rakes, leaving ground you can use.
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A mulcher head grinds brush and small trees into chips in one pass. You get the ground back under a layer of chips.
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We clear thick brush, undergrowth and small trees off lots, field edges, fence lines and back acreage. The material gets mulched in place or raked into a pile.
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We clear Himalayan blackberry off fields, fence lines, yards and back acreage with mulcher heads. Blackberry regrows from its root crowns, so we plan the follow-up mowing with you.
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We brush hog overgrown fields, pasture and heavy weeds with a skid steer brush mower. Free estimates across the mid-Willamette Valley from our base in Lebanon.
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We clear homesites and building lots before construction starts. Brush, small trees and stumps come off the footprint and the access.
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Driveways, farm lanes and access roads that brush has closed in, opened back up. We cut the edges and the overhead, then mulch what comes off.
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We clear brush, blackberry and small trees back from homes, shops and barns. Machine work across the mid-Willamette Valley, with free estimates.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Silverton. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us where the property is and what you want cleared, and we will set up a look at it. You can also call or text (541) 936-4687.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.