Serving all of Westchester County, NY — residential & commercial
Site work
Clearing a Westchester lot is as much a permitting and restoration problem as a cutting problem. The county is a patchwork of wetland buffers, steep slopes, tree ordinances and neighbors who notice when a canopy disappears.
We clear selectively wherever the goal allows it: remove the hazard, the invasive and the overcrowded stems, keep the healthy canopy that gives the property its value, and replant what will thrive in the new light.
That approach satisfies most municipal reviewers, keeps the soil on your site, and produces a better result than a bare scrape.
A clear cut removes everything and leaves a site that is slow and difficult to stabilize, harder to permit and slower to recover. Selective clearing keeps the best stems — the straight, healthy, well-spaced trees — and removes the rest, which preserves the canopy value of the property while opening the ground you actually need.
For a view restoration, the work is targeted: remove or limb up the trees in the sight line, keep the screening trees that give you privacy from the road, and leave the mature specimens that hold the slope together.
Most projects start with a walk to flag the keep trees, the remove trees and the protection zone around anything staying. Then we clear access, remove and chip the material, grind stumps where the ground will be used, and haul out the logs.
On sloped or wet sites, erosion control goes in before the first machine moves — silt fence, straw wattles and a stabilized entry, which is also what the town will look for if the work is inspected.
A cleared Westchester lot rarely regrows with what was there a century ago. It regrows with Norway maple, tree of heaven, Japanese knotweed, porcelain berry and multiflora rose unless someone intervenes.
Replanting with species that actually belong here gives the site a much better trajectory: red oak, sugar maple, tulip tree, white pine, serviceberry, dogwood, witch hazel and viburnum all perform well and support the local bird and insect population. We can supply and plant, or leave a planting plan with your landscaper.
Work inside a wetland buffer, on a steep slope, or above a certain clearing threshold often needs town approval, and sometimes a conservation consultant. Clearing without it can produce a stop-work order and a restoration order far worse than the permit would have been.
We identify what your project triggers during the site walk and coordinate the application, including the tree survey and the erosion control plan most municipalities request.
A cleared lot should look intentional, not raw. Finishing work typically includes grading the disturbed areas, spreading topsoil, seeding or sodding, mulch rings around retained trees, and cleaning every hard surface.
We photograph the finished site and leave you a simple record of what was removed and what was planted — useful for the town, for your records, and for whoever owns the property next.
Questions
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Yes — house pad, driveway, septic field and utility corridors, with the trees you want to keep protected by fencing before equipment arrives. Protecting the root zones of retained trees during construction is what determines whether they survive the build.
Often paired with
Sectional, rigged and crane-assisted removal for trees that cannot simply be dropped.
Grind below grade, remove the root flare, and restore the lawn so it can be planted again.
Diagnosis and treatment plans for decline, root damage, insects and fungal decay.
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