About this platform
An independent planning resource for landowners. It does not perform clearing work, does not vet contractors, and does not pretend to know your property.
The problem this exists for
A landowner asks three contractors to quote clearing five acres. The prices come back at four times apart. None of them is dishonest — they have filled the same five blanks differently, because nobody stated the answers.
Most of what is published about land clearing either sells clearing or ranks contractors. Very little of it helps a landowner work out what they are actually buying, which is the part that decides whether the project goes well.
What this platform does
- Explains the five questions every clearing quote silently answers
- Separates the trades, so a project is not sent to a contractor who cannot do it
- Publishes tools whose rules you can read, on the same page as the tool
- Describes what is actually true about clearing in 22 land regions
- Names the authority that governs each regulatory question, by state
- Passes properly described projects to contractors in the matching category
What it does not do
How it pays for itself
When you choose to submit a project, the details you provide are passed to independent contractors who may pay for the introduction. That payment is for the introduction only. It does not buy an endorsement, a ranking, or a place in any guidance on this site, and no contractor sees your project before you decide to send it.
That relationship is why the editorial boundaries on this site are written down and enforced in code rather than left to good intentions. A planning resource funded by the people it sends work to has to be able to show where the line is. Full disclosures.
Who is accountable
Published by the Land Clearing Authority editorial team. That is an organisational owner rather than a named person, deliberately — inventing an expert with fabricated credentials is exactly the kind of trust signal this platform exists to avoid. Named contributors will appear here when real, identifiable people have reviewed specific pages.
Every published page is re-read against its sources at least annually, and immediately whenever a cited authority changes a program or a document moves.
The current state of it
123 published pages, five planning tools, 22 regional markets, and eight research datasets that currently hold no observations — because the methodology is published before the data exists, not after.
Work out the scope before you ask for prices
Answer the five questions every quote depends on — what is growing, where the material goes, how deep removal has to reach, whether equipment can get in, and what the land is for afterwards. Then send one properly described project to the right kind of contractor.
Nothing on this site is a recommendation of a specific company. The guidance describes categories of work and the questions worth asking. If you decide to request quotes, the introduction is free to you, contractors may pay to receive it, and you are under no obligation to hire anyone.