Don't be fooled. We are the only CedarClearing.com. A lot of other companies are copying our "CedarClearing.com" domain name by adding a name in front of CedarClearing.com and registering it. We inherited CedarClearing.com from a friend long time ago. We don't play games or try to fool you and we have served the Hill Country for over 26 years.
Yellow Dog Services was founded in 1994 when the owner, Jason Benedict was in college and filled the need for a small land clearing and property clean up company for his family's real estate brokerage.
Our goal has always been conservation through good stewardship, and we attempt to go with the natural grain of the Hill Country. We find our best working relationships are with landowners who want to work with their property to restore or reclaim it from overgrazing, poor cedar or brush management, extensive erosion, dead trees from fire, drought, and oak wilt. We have restored a lot of property over the years, and we know what works and what doesn't. The short version is that slowing erosion, keeping your soils healthy, and adding biomass to your land are all good things and those are a big part of what has been missing in land stewardship over the last 100 plus years.
While we don't hate cedar, we do see a need for responsible thinning and that's what makes us different than the other cedar clearing contractors. For healthy properties, we don't recommend clear cutting cedars, nor do we use scare tactics such as "cedars soak up all the water" or "cedars are not native" or "cedars are invasive." Cedars are not invasive however, they can be aggressive colonizers in poor soils or open fields, fence lines, and under hardwoods. On larger parcels we often recommend clearing in mosaic pattern that mimics natural forests permeated by meadows. Cutting trails through smaller tracts will make your property seem larger and if you have a lot of thin soils, we often recommend keeping some cedar to make new soil.
We love our own managed cedar forests and when oak wilt hit our ranches, we were glad that we left our mature cedars especially the ones we trimmed up. We understand that each property owner needs to make their own decisions for their land use goals and the health of their property, but if you ask us, we will share what we have learned over the years. We are here to help whether it's cutting in new roads, slowing or stopping oak wilt, cedar mulching, our return to rock crushing, erosion control and we even tear down old structures and clean up properties that have been used as a dump.
Let us help you open your land to enjoyment!
