Stumps Ground. Lots Cleared. Land Back to Work.

Marion County land has its own rules — and its own vegetation

Ocala sits on the line where Central Florida's sand pine scrub meets horse-country pasture, and the ground shows it: laurel oaks and water oaks that drop and rot fast (the county's most-ground stumps), live oaks whose root flares spread wider than the canopy did, saw palmetto whose root balls laugh at a rented brush mower, and slash pines standing in rows on every former timber parcel. What you clear, and how, depends on which of those you've got — which is why our estimates happen with eyes on the land, not from a satellite photo.

Two things worth knowing before you hire anyone (including us). First: gopher tortoises are protected in Florida, and their burrows show up constantly on Marion County scrub lots. Clearing over an active burrow without an FWC permit is a real violation with real fines — we walk every parcel for burrows first and tell you honestly what we find, because "the mulcher didn't know" is not a defense the state accepts. Second: burn piles need authorization in Florida, and half the county is in a burn-sensitive zone by spring. Mulching and hauling cost a little more than burning; they also don't put your name on a Division of Forestry incident report.