Land clearing is serious business. The trees you are about to remove may well be a hundred to a hundred-and-fifty years old, especially if they're growing in less than ideal conditions. Once the clearing is done, your land will need consistent annual effort to keep it from growing up in brush and weeds. If you don't plan well, both for getting the clearing done and for keeping the land clear, then you risk losing your time, your sizable investment and perhaps a century-old forest. Think it over before you clear.

Stripped to the essentials, there are two ways to clear land: by hand or by machine. That's if you've never done much clearing by hand. If you have, then you may very well feel that the only way is by machine.

Some people will suggest a third method: goats, but I'd warn you that this method is much more popular among those who haven't tried it yet. Goats aren't going to eliminate anything much over four or five feet high, and despite what you may have seen in the comics, they can be rather finicky eaters if they don't happen to cotton to what you want to get rid of. Goats are a good solution for keeping cleared land cleared, but not for clearing it in the first place.

If youve only got a tiny patch of ground to clear, and it doesnt matter how long it takes, then by all means do it by hand. Youll save quite a bit of money, get a quite a lot of exercise, and youll also be treating yourself to quite an education in the process. If you actually ever get finished, you probably will choose to hire equipment if there ever is a next time.

Of course, its up to each person to decide how big a piece of ground has to be before its considered more than a tiny patch. If youre thinking that clearing land only means going out with a chain-saw and cutting down several trees (which is plenty of work in itself) then youll be getting the full helping of acquired education.

Personally, my acquired education on the subject tells me that the only amount of land where clearing by hand is worth the time and effort is in situations where machinery would not have room to work without damaging buildings or other desirable trees and plants in the process. In other words, pretty small places.

Using machinery, you can go from dense forest to pasture or garden soil, in about two years time.

GETTING RID OF THE TREES

Your biggest single expense will probably be what you spend to take the trees down. In the case of small acreages with small timber to be cleared, it may be that you would save money by hiring one of the smaller bulldozers the size of the Caterpillar D3 or the John Deere 450 but if you have over two acres of mature trees to be removed, bigger is almost always better.

There are three machines you can hire to remove grown trees:

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An MP is demanding an explanation for a fine of nearly $17,000 imposed on a Waikato farmer for removing weeds from his own land.

NZ First's Richard Prosser says Waikato Regional Council prosecuted Okoroire sharemilker Bas Nelis, a farmer who had previously won environmental awards.

"He was raided by six council investigators and the police because he was clearing a gully of pest plants before replanting it with natives," Mr Prosser said on Wednesday.

"His environmental work has resulted in a $16,875 fine under the Resource Management Act for unlawful use of land and disturbing a riverbed."

Mr Prosser says he's writing a "please explain" letter to Local Government Minister Paula Bennett.

"There's genuine anger in the Waikato from farmers, former and current councillors, as well as from Federated Farmers," he said.

"That tells me the council has stuffed up big time."

The fine was imposed by Environment Court Judge Melanie Harland.

She acknowledged in her decision the previous environmental work carried out by Nelis, but also said he should have known better because of that.

Council chief executive Vaughan Payne described the case as "difficult and unusual," Fairfax reported at the time.

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SYDNEY--U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law legislation clearing a land-swap deal that will underpin the proposed US$6 billion development of one of the world's largest untapped copper deposits, Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) said Monday.

The Resolution copper project in Arizona, which is 55% owned by Rio and 45% by partner BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP.AU), is expected to be one of the next major investments for London-based Rio Tinto. In recent years, Rio Tinto has relied on another commodity--iron ore--for the bulk of its earnings.

The controversial land-swap deal--first proposed nearly a decade ago, and which Rio said it needed for the project to be commercially viable--allows for the exchange of 2,400 acres of land around the deposit owned by the U.S. government for 5,400 acres of privately owned land held by Rio Tinto subsidiary Resolution Copper.

"Passage of the land exchange at Resolution will help us establish the full potential of the resource and provides a clear road map to commercial development," Rio Tinto copper chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques said in an emailed statement.

Mr. Jacques said the copper market outlook is strong and that Rio aims to ensure it is able to capitalize on future demand for the metal, used widely in construction and manufacturing. "Resolution is a central component of our copper strategy and we are willing to invest in development over many years to bring high-quality, long-life copper assets into production," he said.

Rio Tinto says the deposit is the third-largest known undeveloped copper resource in the world. The project will now be subject to a comprehensive environmental and regulatory review process, it said.

Native American representatives groups, including the National Congress of American Indians, have argued the federal land in the Tonto National Forest is a place of worship for the Apache and Yavapai people, and is home to ancient settlements and burial sites.

According to the project website, Rio Tinto expects to be producing copper from the deposit--which is nearly 7,000 feet deep, or five Empire State Buildings below the Earth's surface--in the mid-2020s.

The site could produce around 500,000 metric tons of copper a year, according to the website. Output at that level is enough to meet one-quarter of annual U.S. copper demand, said Rio, which estimates the resource could last for more than four decades.

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