(479) 304-0400

Land clearing and forestry mulching in the Arkansas River Valley

Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service clears brush, timber, and overgrown land in all eight River Valley counties: Crawford, Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, Johnson, Scott, Pope, and Yell.

Call (479) 304-0400 Find your town, A to Z

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Clean fence line and metal gate along a green field with a farm track and a row of trees
Frame 01Arkansas River Valley24/7
Counties
8Crawford, Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, Johnson, Scott, Pope, and Yell
Towns we serve here
65From Alma to Waldron
Ecoregions
3Arkansas Valley, Boston Mountains, and Ouachita Mountains, on the EPA's map
Nearest listing to Fort Smith
Hindsville64 miles in a straight line; travel is listed on every quote

Two promises on every River Valley job

We keep both on every job, from Van Buren to Danville.

  1. 01Every call or text gets a call back the same working day, from the person running your job.
  2. 02Your quote comes with a start week. If the weather moves it, we call you.

Arkansas River Valley towns we serve, A to Z

All 65 towns below are in our service area, across eight counties. Towns with their own page are linked.

  • Crawford County11 towns
  • Franklin County5 towns
  • Johnson County8 towns
  • Logan County9 towns
  • Pope County8 towns
  • Scott County5 towns
  • Sebastian County8 towns
  • Yell County11 towns
    • Barling, Sebastian Co.
    • Belleville, Yell Co.
    • Blue Mountain, Logan Co.
    • Bluffton, Yell Co.
    • Boles, Scott Co.
    • Booneville, Logan Co.
    • Branch, Franklin Co.
    • Briggsville, Yell Co.
    • Cecil, Franklin Co.
    • Cedarville, Crawford Co.
    • Centerville, Yell Co.
    • Charleston, Franklin Co.
    • Chester, Crawford Co.
    • Clarksville, Johnson Co.
    • Clear Creek, Crawford Co.
    • Coal Hill, Johnson Co.
    • Danville, Yell Co.
    • Dardanelle, Yell Co.
    • Delaware, Logan Co.
    • Dover, Pope Co.
    • Dyer, Crawford Co.
    • Hackett, Sebastian Co.
    • Hagarville, Johnson Co.
    • Hartford, Sebastian Co.
    • Hartman, Johnson Co.
    • Harvey, Scott Co.
    • Havana, Yell Co.
    • Hector, Pope Co.
    • Huntington, Sebastian Co.
    • Knoxville, Johnson Co.
    • Lamar, Johnson Co.
    • Lavaca, Sebastian Co.
    • London, Pope Co.
    • Oark, Johnson Co.
    • Ola, Yell Co.
    • Ozark, Franklin Co.
    • Ozone, Johnson Co.
    • Paris, Logan Co.
    • Parks, Scott Co.
    • Pelsor, Pope Co.
    • Plainview, Yell Co.
    • Pottsville, Pope Co.
    • Ratcliff, Logan Co.
    • Rover, Yell Co.
    • Rudy, Crawford Co.
    • Russellville, Pope Co.
    • Scranton, Logan Co.
    • Subiaco, Logan Co.
    • Tilly, Pope Co.
    • Uniontown, Crawford Co.
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Frame 02Pasture edgePine and hardwood

Valley pasture, mountain timber: the ground in the River Valley

Most River Valley towns sit on the valley floor, in the EPA's Arkansas Valley ecoregion. Nine towns in the north climb into the Boston Mountains, and eight in southern Yell and Scott counties sit in the Ouachita Mountains.

The valley floor between Fort Smith and Atkins is mostly pasture and hay ground today. The Boston Mountains are still mostly forest, and the Ouachita ridges are wooded, with pasture only in a few broad valleys.

  1. Arkansas Valley

    Level III ecoregion 37, 48 towns

    The valley floor lies between the Ozarks and the Ouachitas, over sandstone, shale, and siltstone. Around Fort Smith, Van Buren, Russellville, and Booneville, the plains were once prairie, savanna, and woodland, and pieces of the Cherokee Prairie still remain near Fort Smith. Hillier ground around Alma, Dover, Lamar, and Coal Hill grows oak, hickory, and pine, with pasture on the gentler slopes. Dardanelle sits on the Arkansas River floodplain. Blue Mountain sits among the valley's scattered high ridges, the same rugged, wooded ground as Magazine Mountain, the highest point in Arkansas at 2,753 feet.

    Towns hereAlma, Altus, Atkins, Barling, Belleville, Blue Mountain, Booneville, Branch, Cecil, Centerville, Charleston, Clarksville, Clear Creek, Coal Hill, Danville, Dardanelle, Delaware, Dover, Dyer, Fort Smith, Greenwood, Hackett, Hagarville, Hartford, Hartman, Havana, Hector, Huntington, Knoxville, Lamar, Lavaca, London, Magazine, Mansfield, Midland, Mulberry, New Blaine, Ola, Ozark, Paris, Pottsville, Ratcliff, Rudy, Russellville, Scranton, Subiaco, Van Buren, and Waldron

  2. Boston Mountains

    Level III ecoregion 38, 9 towns

    North of the river, from Mountainburg and Natural Dam to Oark, Ozone, and Tilly, the land rises into mountains of sandstone, shale, and siltstone that are still widely forested. Northern red oak, southern red oak, white oak, and hickory cover most uplands, and shortleaf pine grows on the drier south- and west-facing slopes. Around Pelsor, the mountains run higher and wetter, from 1,900 to 2,800 feet, under closed oak and hickory forest with far less pine.

    Towns hereCedarville, Chester, Mountainburg, Natural Dam, Oark, Ozone, Pelsor, Tilly, and Uniontown

  3. Ouachita Mountains

    Level III ecoregion 36, 8 towns

    In southern Yell and Scott counties, around Plainview, Rover, Gravelly, Boles, and Parks, long sandstone ridges run east to west with shale valleys between them. Forest on the steep north-facing slopes stays moister, and the steepest south-facing slopes carry grassy woodland. Pasture and hay fields are limited to a few broad valleys, and loblolly and shortleaf pine grow across these mountains.

    Towns hereBluffton, Boles, Briggsville, Gravelly, Harvey, Parks, Plainview, and Rover

Sources: U.S. EPA, Level III and IV Ecoregions of Arkansas (Woods and others, 2004), as adapted in the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Wildlife Action Plan, Section 3. Each town is placed by its center point on the Arkansas GIS Office's ECOREGIONS_EPA_2004 map layer.

What the ground changes on your job

River bottoms

The Arkansas River floodplain around Dardanelle has swales, backswamps, and oxbow lakes, and its last stands of forest are on frequently flooded or poorly drained ground. If the ground is too wet to work without rutting, we tell you and reschedule. Any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.

Floodplain: U.S. EPA, Ecoregions of Arkansas, 2004 (ecoregion 37b)
Pasture brush

Cleared pasture brush often needs a second pass. Blackberry and dewberry usually need a follow-up treatment the next year to catch what escaped, and honeylocust needs a follow-up the next spring. Before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave and what it will need afterwards to keep the brush from coming back.

Source: University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Pasture Weed Control in Arkansas (MP522)

Rules that can touch a River Valley clearing job

On the first visit we tell you which Arkansas rules may touch your job (burn bans, the 1-acre stormwater permit, septic permits) and who handles each.

  1. Burn bans

    Burn bans are set county by county by each county judge, so Sebastian County can have one while Pope County doesn't. The Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Forestry Division posts all eight counties' status on its wildfire danger and burn ban map.Source: Arkansas Department of Agriculture, Forestry Division

  2. Stormwater

    Clearing, grading, or digging that disturbs 1 acre or more falls under Arkansas DEQ's construction stormwater permit, ARR150000. From 1 acre to under 5, coverage is automatic, with a posted site notice and a stormwater plan. From 5 acres up, a Notice of Intent is filed before work starts.Source: Arkansas DEQ, construction stormwater permits, ARR150000 renewal effective November 1, 2026

  3. Fort Smith grading

    Inside Fort Smith, grading that alters 1 acre or more, or comes within 15 feet of an existing utility line, needs the city's Fill and Grading Permit first. The city's Engineering Department enforces it, and smaller sites still have to meet the ordinance's basic erosion controls.Source: City of Fort Smith, Stormwater Management Program (permit ARR040011, June 2024), filed with Arkansas DEQ

  4. Wetlands

    Machine clearing in a wetland can need approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Arkansas DEQ refers wetland questions to the Corps.Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Section 404; Arkansas DEQ, NPDES questions

What we do across the River Valley

We have the equipment for any land clearing or earth-moving job, from opening up a grown-over fence row to cutting a level house pad.

River Valley land clearing questions

What landowners from Alma to Danville ask before a clearing crew comes out.

Who do I call for land clearing near Fort Smith?

Call (479) 304-0400. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service's Hindsville listing is the nearest of our three to Fort Smith, 64 miles away in a straight line. Every call or text gets a call back the same working day, from the person running your job.

Do I need a permit to clear land in Fort Smith?

Only for larger jobs. Inside Fort Smith, grading that alters 1 acre or more needs the city's Fill and Grading Permit, and Arkansas DEQ's ARR150000 stormwater permit covers 1 acre or more disturbed statewide. On the first visit, Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service tells you which rules may touch your job and who handles each.

Can you forestry mulch in the rain?

Not when the ground is too wet to work without rutting. That comes up most on bottomland like the Arkansas River floodplain at Dardanelle, which the EPA maps with swales and backswamps. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service tells you and reschedules, and any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.

Will grass grow after forestry mulching?

Not always. The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture says brush control brings more grass only where a stand of grass, such as bermudagrass, is already there to spread. Before we quote, Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service tells you what the ground will look like the day we leave and what it will need afterwards.

Does cleared include hauling the brush and logs away?

Only when your quote says so. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service writes down what happens to every bit of cut material: mulched in place, piled, or hauled away. We walk the site with you before we call the job done.

Our nearest listing to Fort Smith

We come to your land anywhere in the River Valley. The map shows our Hindsville listing, 64 miles from Fort Smith in a straight line.

  • Hindsville line: Fort Smith, Van Buren, Clarksville, and Crawford, Sebastian, and Franklin counties(479) 304-0400
  • Greenbrier line: Pope County, plus Dardanelle, Lamar, Knoxville, Hagarville, Delaware, and New Blaine(479) 480-6400
  • Hot Springs line: Yell County outside Dardanelle, Waldron and southern Scott County, Booneville, and Magazine(501) 547-8816

All three lines reach the same crew. A short recording answers first. Press 1 and you're put through.

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Other Arkansas regions we work

Each region page names its towns, A to Z, and the line nearest them.

Northwest Arkansas

Benton, Washington, Madison, and Carroll counties

Ozarks and North Central

Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Baxter, Stone, Izard, Fulton, Sharp, Van Buren, and Cleburne counties

Northeast Arkansas

Randolph, Lawrence, Clay, Greene, Craighead, Mississippi, and Poinsett counties

White River Valley

Independence, Jackson, White, and Woodruff counties

Arkansas Delta

Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis, Lee, Phillips, Monroe, Prairie, and Arkansas counties

Central Arkansas

Pulaski, Faulkner, Saline, Lonoke, Perry, Conway, and Grant counties

Hot Springs and the Ouachitas

Garland, Montgomery, Hot Spring, Clark, Pike, and Polk counties

Southwest Arkansas

Miller, Hempstead, Little River, Sevier, Howard, Lafayette, and Nevada counties

South Arkansas

Union, Columbia, Ouachita, Calhoun, Dallas, Bradley, and Cleveland counties

Southeast Arkansas

Jefferson, Lincoln, Drew, Ashley, Chicot, and Desha counties

Towns we serve, A to Z

Every Arkansas town with its own page, and the line nearest each one

Call about clearing your River Valley land

(479) 304-0400
Call or text our Hindsville line. The person running your job calls back the same working day.

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