California, Maryland is the St. Mary’s community between Lexington Park and Hollywood, not the state on the other coast. It sits on MD-235, with neighborhoods such as Chancellor’s Run and First Colony pushed into loblolly woods and into fields that used to be farmed.
The call from a house here is usually the back of the lot. The builder cleared a pad and left the rest. Ten years later that rest is pine saplings, sweetgum, and briars tall enough to hide the property pins. Forestry mulching opens it without turning a sandy yard into a haul road. The chips stay. The trees the owner wants along the side line get flagged before the machine starts.
First Colony and the newer streets have fences and irrigation the machine has to miss. The older places toward Hollywood have longer drives and softer ground after rain. Retired agricultural ground grows a different mess than a pine stand: grass that went to cedar and rose, with a few big trees in the fence row that should stay.
Full clearing is the other tool, used when someone is putting in a shop pad or opening ground for a perc test and the stumps cannot stay. That scope, including Critical Area questions on the parcels that run toward the Patuxent, is on the lot and land clearing page. The grind-in-place method is forestry mulching. Lexington Park is south on the same road.
Say which California you mean by the cross street, and what you want opened. The estimate is free. Reach out today and you will hear back today.
