Ozarks Land Revival badge — 417-517-LAND
Forestry mulching & land clearing in Southwest Missouri

Want to Revive Your Land? Tell Us the Plan, We’ll Do the Work.

Professional forestry mulching, brush clearing, and land restoration across Southwest Missouri. Transparent pricing. Fast results. Nothing hauled off on clearing jobs.

417-517-LAND  ·  Free On-Site Estimates  ·  Serving Southwest Missouri — Full Service Area

The problem

Overgrown land costs you more than curb appeal.

You’re paying taxes on every acre. Honeysuckle and cedar don’t care — they take the back forty a foot at a time until the ground you bought is ground you can’t use, can’t walk, and aren’t proud to show anyone. And another season won’t slow them down: cedar thickets don’t shrink on their own, and access doesn’t get easier the longer it sits.

Sound familiar?

  • Honeysuckle and cedar are swallowing acreage you pay taxes on every year.
  • You can’t walk it, hunt it, fence it, mow it, or build on it — and you don’t want to send the kids or a hunting buddy into brush you can’t see through.
  • It’s not the property you pictured when you bought it — or the one you inherited.
  • The last crew quoted hourly, and the clock kept moving.

Here’s what we do about it.

  • Walk it again in days, not weeks — brush and invasives mulched where they stand, nothing hauled, nothing burned.
  • Know the number before the machine leaves the trailer — a written quote with the scope spelled out, no surprises.
  • Land that gets healthier, not scarred — the mulch we leave holds your soil instead of stripping it.
  • Land safe enough to walk, hunt, and hand off to the next generation — not just cleared, but usable again.

If that’s the direction you want this land headed, let’s go take a look.

Our services

Everything Your Land Needs

Ozarks Land Revival uses professional forestry mulching equipment to grind brush, invasive vegetation, and overgrown timber directly into mulch on-site. No hauling debris away. No burning. No hand-clearing crews. We restore your land in days, not weeks — and the mulch we leave behind actually improves your soil.

Behind most of these jobs

Honeysuckle, Cedar & Invasive Growth

This isn’t a separate service — it’s the reason behind most of them. Honeysuckle and cedar are what closed in the pasture, swallowed the trail, and took the back forty. Whichever job fits your land, this is usually what we’re actually removing.

Why trimming makes it worse →

Forestry Mulching

Our flagship service. Brush, trees, and invasive growth ground into mulch right on-site. Faster, cleaner, and better for your soil than traditional clearing.

Access Clearing

Open up access trails, ATV paths, and fence lines through your property. We cut clean lines without disturbing the surrounding landscape.

Homesite Prep

Clearing, stumps, scalping, rough grading, and cleanup — everything that has to happen before an excavator or builder can start.

Pasture Reclamation

Cedar in the corners and brush off the fence line, cleared back so you’re grazing the acres you’re paying taxes on.

Storm Cleanup & Debris Handling

After a storm hits, we move fast. Downed trees, large debris, and brush piles — mulched on site where that works, hauled off when it doesn’t.

Stump Grinding

For a finished result after clearing. We grind stumps down flush with the ground so your land is ready for whatever comes next. Mulchers leave stumps behind. We don’t.

How it works

Three Steps. No Mystery. Just 1-2-3.

1

Tell us about the property

Send us the address, roughly how much ground you’re dealing with, and what you want it to become. Photos help — the more we see up front, the tighter our first number will be. Takes two minutes.

2

We walk it and quote it

Free on-site estimate, no obligation. We rate the terrain and the density, confirm access and boundaries, and hand you a written quote with the scope spelled out. If the ground tells a different story than the photos did, you’ll hear it from us before the machine starts — never after.

3

We open it back up

Brush gets mulched where it stands, stumps get ground flush. You get land you can walk, hunt, and be proud of again — usually in days, not weeks.

How we price

You’ll know the number before the machine leaves the trailer.

Nobody wants a surprise on the invoice — that’s not how we do business, and it’s not how you should have to run yours. We don’t guess at hours. Every property gets rated on two things: how rough the terrain is, and how thick the growth is. Those ratings drive a price per half-acre, and that’s how your quote gets built.

You get a written quote before we start, with the scope and price spelled out — including anything extra, like tight equipment access, heavy rock, root-bound ground, or hazards like unstable trees. And if something turns up once we’re on-site that neither of us could’ve seen beforehand, we stop, show you, and agree on it together before any more work happens — never a surprise after the fact, and never buried in the invoice.

If budget’s part of the conversation, say so — we can talk through what matters most to tackle first instead of you guessing at what you can afford, or us guessing what you can’t.

Stump grinding
From $200

One low minimum covers multiple stumps. Ground flush, no surprises.

Cross-section of a freshly cut tree stump showing growth rings, ready for stump grinding

Every job — mulching, clearing, or stumps — starts with a free on-site estimate. No obligation.

Why choose us

Built Different. Built to Last.

We treat your property like we’d want ours treated — with professional equipment, honest pricing, and clean work from start to finish.

Veteran-Owned & Operated

Founded by two U.S. Marines. The discipline, attention to detail, and work ethic carries straight into every job we take.

Transparent Pricing

No hourly surprises. We quote your job upfront based on acreage and density so you know exactly what you’re paying before we start.

No Haul-Off on Clearing Jobs

On mulching and land clearing, everything we cut gets mulched right where it falls — no dump fees, no waiting on haul trucks, and a clean finished property. Storm debris is the exception: that one we haul away for you.

Professional Systems

CRM scheduling, digital invoices, and signed contracts on every job. We run a real business, not a guy with a chainsaw.

Justin says

Cut honeysuckle in winter. Everything else is dormant, so you can see what you’re actually cutting.

1 / 15

Twelve generations of my family have worked this river. Not one of us has been paid.

2 / 15

Leave the mulch where it lands. It holds your topsoil and keeps the honeysuckle from bouncing back.

3 / 15

We call 811 before anything gets ground. What it won’t show is septic, irrigation, or invisible fence — those you point out to us.

4 / 15

I was offered a supervisor role. I declined. Too many meetings, not enough water.

5 / 15

Planning to mow over where a stump was? Tell us up front. Mowable ground means grinding six inches below grade, not flush with it.

6 / 15

Clear the fence line before you build the fence. Everybody learns this exactly once.

7 / 15

They issued me a hard hat. I appreciated the gesture.

8 / 15

Cedar spreads by bird. Take the berry-bearing trees first or you’ll redo this in five years.

9 / 15

Don’t burn the pile. It smolders for a week and half these counties want a permit.

10 / 15

My résumé is three counties long and every reference is a stump.

11 / 15

Wet ground ruts. If it’s been raining, give it a few dry days.

12 / 15

Walk your property line with a plat map first. Clearing your neighbor’s trees gets expensive.

13 / 15

Everything I cut stays on the property. Some of it becomes my house.

14 / 15

Take before pictures. You’ll forget how bad it was, and your insurance might want them.

15 / 15
The Ozarks Land Revival beaver mascot in a green cap and suspenders, holding a coffee mug
Who you’re calling

Two Marines, a mulcher, and a beaver named Justin.

Ozarks Land Revival is Steve and Isaiah Tester — a father and son who both served in the Marine Corps and now spend their days turning Ozarks brush back into ground you can walk on. When you call, you get one of us — we both answer the phone, walk the property, write the quote, and run the machine. Not a call center, not a subcontractor, not a guy we found last Tuesday.

Justin consults on every job. No CDL, never been cleared to run the mulcher, drinks all the coffee.

Customer proof
★★★★★
5.0 on Google

“Very happy with the results I received! … quick, easy, and kept me updated throughout the process.”

Glen Brown  ·  Google Review

Ready to Get Started?

Free on-site estimates. Transparent pricing. Fast turnaround. Let’s restore your land.

417-517-LAND
Ozarks Land Revival

Veteran-Owned Small Business  ·  Springfield, Missouri

Ozarks Land Revival LLC  ·  Land Clearing · Forestry Mulching · Vegetation Management

Serving Greene, Christian, Webster, Stone, Taney, Lawrence, Polk & Dallas Counties