Yaupon, Privet or Tallow Taking Over in Silsbee, TX

What to do right now

1. 1Look for pipeline markers and utility right of way along the road frontage and any old tram or rail corridor on the tract, and read the deed for easements. Anything with the look of a line gets a Texas811 locate before the drum turns. An uncertain boundary is your surveyor's problem before it is ours.
2. 2Find out whether the tract has been logged. If it was cut over and left, there are stumps under the yaupon, and the quote has to know that.
3. 3Mark the pines, hardwoods and den trees you want kept, and tell us where you hunt. The machine route and what gets left as cover are planned around both.
4. 4Walk to the low side and find the slough or creek edge. That Village Creek bottom is the tallow strip, the strip the mat has to hold, and the strip where jurisdiction may apply.
5. 5Book lane and sight-line work for spring or early summer rather than the weeks before the season, so the deer have settled by the time you need them to.

Why this happens in Silsbee, TX

Silsbee is about nineteen miles north of Beaumont on Highway 96, in Hardin County, where the coastal plain gives way to the piney woods and the Big Thicket begins in earnest to the north and east. The Kirby timber operations built the town and shaped the country around it, which is why old tram grades, rail spurs and stump fields sit under the yaupon on tracts that look untouched. The sandier uplands give more working days in a year than the clay to the south, while the Village Creek bottomland stays wet and can carry jurisdiction. Any pile would have to wait on the Hardin County ban and satisfy TCEQ's outdoor burning rules, which is one more reason a canopy job here leaves the chips down and builds no pile.