Introduction to Forest Mulching for Trail System and Management Access

Open up your land, improve access and utility. A regenerative practice that benefits the land while increasing use. Establish grazing pastures for goats, hogs, and forest-raised meat birds.

With the right design plan, it's easy to get more from your rural land, agricultural property, or overgrown thicket. Opening up your land using forest mulching is a sustainable way to start raising animals, increase hunting habitat, and start enjoying your property.

Do this if you want to raise goats? Avid hunters discover this increases deer health. Forest access with a clear property parameter and level crossroads makes your land more enjoyable. You can use it without a lot of hassle. Too many rely on outdated methods of land cleaning that damages ecology.

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Some complain forest mulching is expensive, then spend hundreds of hours clearing by hand. Worse, they hire a bulldozer that tears up the forest ecology. Before starting your next land clearing project, look at forest mulching in your design plan. (What? You don't have a plan?)

Comment below with questions about planning a land clearing, land restoration, and conservation, or how to hire professionals to get these jobs done right. Too many landowners go cheap upfront and end up paying for it over the life of their property. And worse, the local ecology and the environment suffer.

Learn more about USDA best practices around natural resource conservation, https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/?cid=nrcs143_023585 Mulching, in general, helps landowners of all sizes, plus is something you can start doing at home. Remember to use natural untreated mulches for best results.