How Land Clearing Helps Reduce Ticks on Your Property

Deer Tick

If your property has thick brush, tall grass, or wooded edges, it could be attracting more than just deer. These kinds of overgrown areas create the perfect environment for ticks, giving them shade, moisture, and cover to thrive close to where people and pets spend time. Left unchecked, these areas can turn into hotspots for tick activity and increase the risk of bites and disease.

Ticks carry Lyme disease and other illnesses that can affect both people and pets. In Southeastern Wisconsin, tick activity tends to be high during the warmer months. At Midwest Land Solutions, we offer land clearing and forestry mulching services that can help reduce ticks on your property by removing the habitat they rely on.

Why Ticks Like Overgrown Areas: Ticks need shade, moisture, and places to hide. You’ll often find them in:

• Tall grass and field edges

• Brush piles and unmanaged undergrowth

• Leaf litter and damp wooded areas

• Low tree branches and fallen limbs

This type of environment helps ticks stay sheltered and undetected until a person or animal passes by.

How Clearing Your Land Makes a Difference: Strategic land clearing removes the conditions that ticks prefer. Here’s how it helps:

• Clearing brush, weeds, and tall grass reduces shade and increases airflow, making the area less hospitable to ticks.

• Mulching ground cover smooths out areas where rodents (tick carriers) like to nest.

• Removing low branches and dead wood opens up the property and reduces ground moisture.

• Creating open zones between woods and lawn gives ticks fewer chances to migrate into high-traffic areas. The result is a cleaner, more open property with fewer ticks.  A Safer Property for You and Your Family.

Whether you’re maintaining hunting land, preparing a site for a new home, or just trying to make your backyard more usable, land clearing is a practical way to cut down on ticks and other pests.

If your property could use some cleanup, or if you're noticing more ticks than you'd like, give Midwest Land Solutions a call. We provide land clearing and forestry mulching across Jefferson, Waukesha, Walworth, and surrounding counties. We’ll help you get your land under control and make it safer, more accessible, and better for years to come.

Call 262-470-7117 for a free estimate.