# Land clearing notes

> Notes on clearing land around Denton: seasonal timing, rain on clay, cost-share rounds and what a typical small clearing job looks like from start to finish.

URL: https://postoaklandclearingdenton.com/blog/

Shorter pieces on timing, weather and programs that change a clearing job around Denton. For the full answers on cost, permits and methods, the guides go deeper.

## Latest notes

- [What clearing a small overgrown backyard in Denton looks like, start to finish (an illustrative example)](https://postoaklandclearingdenton.com/blog/clearing-a-small-backyard-lot-in-denton/): An illustrative example, not a record of a real job: how a fenced, head-high Denton backyard goes from too thick to mow to open ground, and what decides each step.
- [Denton's tree removal and clearing permit fees changed on October 1: what owners pay now](https://postoaklandclearingdenton.com/blog/denton-tree-removal-and-clearing-permit-fees/): Denton City Council adopted a new fee schedule on September 22, 2026. The tree removal permit roughly doubled, the clearing and grading permit rose, and mitigation stayed at $200 an inch.
- [EQIP brush management cost-share: how the yearly application round works for Denton County landowners](https://postoaklandclearingdenton.com/blog/eqip-brush-management-for-denton-county-landowners/): NRCS takes EQIP applications all year but ranks them in rounds, with a fall cutoff each year. Here is who qualifies, what brush work it covers and the order to do things in.
- [Goats vs a forestry mulcher for brush: which fits your land before spring regrowth?](https://postoaklandclearingdenton.com/blog/goats-vs-mulcher-for-brush/): Goats eat leaves and tender shoots; a mulcher grinds the whole stem. Which one fits depends on what the brush is, what you want the land to become and what spring will bring back.
- [What rain does to a land clearing job on Denton clay](https://postoaklandclearingdenton.com/blog/what-rain-does-to-a-clearing-job-on-denton-clay/): May and October bring Denton's heaviest rains. Here is what that water does to clay under a clearing machine, and how a job is planned around it.

Looking for costs, permits or methods? See the [land clearing guides](https://postoaklandclearingdenton.com/guide/).