Vegetation Management
in Guttenberg, Iowa

Serving Guttenberg & the Clayton County Bluffs

Guttenberg's Mississippi River bluffs make for dramatic country and awkward land management. The wooded hillsides above town grow brush fast, and river and bluff-base properties often carry invasive species that have gone unchecked for years. We work the parts of that ground a machine can handle safely.

We work with Clayton County landowners on brush clearing, mowing and trail work, including heavily wooded ground. Bluff faces too steep to work and ground full of rock are the two things we'll turn down — we clear right up to them instead.

Bluff Ground on the Mississippi

Guttenberg sits right on the Mississippi in Clayton County, below Lock and Dam No. 10, with the river on one side and steep Driftless bluffs rising behind town. Properties here are often long and narrow, running from the road up into timber, with grades that rule out ordinary mowing equipment.

Steep ground is partly a scheduling question and partly a limit. Slopes we can work, we'd rather work when conditions are right — firm, dry ground and dormant vegetation. Bluff faces too steep for a machine, or ground where rock is the main obstacle, we leave alone and clear up to the edge of. Clearing brush off a bluff view is still one of the more satisfying jobs we do.

Most jobs here are brush clearing and trail work. We also work nearby in Dubuque and Manchester, and the FAQ covers what this kind of work usually costs and the best time of year for it.