Doubled
Geauga Lyme cases, 2025
Geauga Public Health issued an advisory in spring 2026 after confirmed Lyme cases in the county doubled over the previous year.
All counties in Northeast Ohio
We give you your land back — and we make it safe to use.
The prickers, the poison ivy, the vines and the saplings crowding your good trees come out in one pass. The woods you already own is standing right behind them — ground you can walk without watching your step. Most properties in a single day.
Without losing a tree worth keeping. Fixed price per acre. Nothing hauled off, nothing burned.
Land recovery and property protection · Northeast Ohio
We give you your land back, and we make it safe to use.
The brush, thorn and poison ivy that grew up under your good trees comes out, and what you get back is ground you can walk without watching your step.
From $295 for an afternoon's work to full estate restoration.
Overgrown lotsFence linesTrailsPasturesBuild sites
The Work
Trees up to eight inches, ground where they stand. Slopes too steep to walk, cleared by remote control.
What actually comes out
Five things go. Everything worth keeping stays.
People say “land clearing” and picture a bulldozer and an empty lot. This is the opposite of that. Here is the actual list of what we take out of a Northeast Ohio property.
- 01
Prickly bushes thorn, briar, multiflora rose
The reason nobody has walked back there in ten years. You cannot mow it, you cannot pull it, and every year it takes a few more feet. This is the single thing most people call us about, whatever they end up calling it.
- 02
Poison ivy and the rest of the vines
Running along the ground and climbing the trunks, right through the tangle where you cannot see it until you are already in it. Vines are what turn an overgrown edge from untidy into genuinely unusable — and left alone, they strangle the good trees they are climbing.
- 03
Ticks and what holds them
The damp tangle at knee height is where they live — deep shade, wet leaves that never dry, and thick cover the deer bed down in. It sits between the house and everywhere the family walks. Take the layer out and you take away what they depend on.
- 04
Invasive brush mostly bush honeysuckle
The wall of green that leafs out before anything native and holds on after everything else has dropped. It shades out the forest floor, so nothing else grows, and it is the main structure the whole tangle is built on.
- 05
Crowding saplings one inch to eight inches thick
Not the trees you want — the volunteers that came up thick in the gaps and are now competing with the trunks worth keeping. Thinning them is what gives the good trees room and lets light back down to the ground.
And what is left standing?
The woods you already own. Northeast Ohio is maple and beech country — sugar maple, American beech, red oak, shagbark hickory, black cherry, birch in the wetter ground. Those trees are already there, full grown, and have been the whole time. They are just behind the tangle.
Nothing here needs planting. It needs uncovering.
The reason most people miss
There is a part of the yard nobody walks any more.
The prickly, thorny stuff at the back of the yard does not just block your view. It builds exactly what ticks need to survive: deep shade, a layer of wet leaves underneath that never dries out, and thick cover deer bed down in. The deer bring the ticks, and the tangle keeps them there. Much of it is bush honeysuckle, though most people just call it brush.
This is the part most people have not connected. That wall of green is not just untidy — it is where they live, and it sits right between the house and everywhere the kids and the dogs actually go.
It is rarely just brush, either. That same edge is where poison ivy runs — along the ground, up the trunks, through the tangle where you cannot see it until you are already in it. Vines are what make an overgrown edge genuinely unusable rather than merely ugly, and they come out with everything else.
= Connecticut
Ohio's risk level, 2026
Ohio State researchers found the risk of encountering an infected blacklegged tick in Ohio is now comparable to Connecticut, where Lyme has been endemic for decades.
Lower
Tick risk after clearing
Work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that clearing out invasive honeysuckle cut the density of infected tick nymphs, by changing where the deer spend their time.
Clearing takes that layer out. The big trees stay, the canopy stays, and the wet tangle at knee height — the part that holds ticks and hides deer — is what goes. Research measuring invasive brush removal has found fewer of the young ticks responsible for most Lyme cases afterward.
To be clear about what that means: this is habitat work, not medicine. Clearing the brush takes away the conditions ticks depend on. It does not make a property tick-free and it is not protection from disease — keep using repellent and keep checking after a walk. We are telling you this because it is a real reason to do the work, not because it is a guarantee.
Sources: Allan et al., PNAS (2010); Bron et al., Journal of Medical Entomology (2021); Geauga Public Health advisory (2026); Ohio State University (2026).
What It Costs
Small jobsFrom $295Drive edge, patch, corner
Forestry Mulching$2,300–$2,990 / acreBy brush density
Brush Hogging$624 / acreOpen ground
No project minimum and never by the hour. Small work is flat-priced, acreage is priced by the acre, and you get the number before we start.
Contractors and developers →Price The Job Now
Tell us the address and what you want gone. We send back a fixed price.
You own the land. You just cannot use it.
That is one layer of brush, and it comes off in a morning.
We'll tell you what it costs. From $295, no project minimum.
Ground you can walk without watching your step — because we take the cover out.
Without losing a tree worth keeping.