Questions,answered plainly.

Highlander Construction is based in Helotes and works across South Central Texas, Bandera included. The service areas page lists the towns and counties with their own pages. If your land is not on it, call and ask.

Yes. Call or send the form and we will talk through the land with you. Only your name and phone are needed to start.

No. Brush density, rock, access, the soil and where the debris goes change every job, so we price each one after looking at the ground. Our price guides explain what the price is based on, with no numbers: land clearing and stock tanks.

Where the land is, roughly how big the area is, what is on it now, what you want there next and how you get in. Photos help. See the contact page for a short list.

Yes. One job we shared covered 400 acres shredded and smoothed, along with a front gate and a tank.

Not sure if we handle it? Call and ask.

Yes. Selective clearing means the trees worth keeping are marked and worked around. The Texas A&M Forest Service advises against wounding or pruning oaks from February through June and says to paint any wound right away. See protecting oaks during clearing.

Where it suits the job and the rules allow it, yes. TCEQ allows burning brush from on-site land clearing under conditions such as wind limits, daylight hours and distance from neighbors, and never during a county burn ban. Read the burn rules and the options during a ban.

It depends on where the land is. San Antonio's tree ordinance covers the city and its ETJ, and Helotes has its own tree permit. The Edwards Aquifer rules can also apply. See the permit guide.

It is an endangered songbird that nests in tall, mature Ashe juniper mixed with oaks. TPWD notes that regrowth cedar is almost never part of its habitat. If your land has old, tall cedar on steep slopes, check with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service before clearing. More in the cedar guide.

Nobody can promise that. A Texas A&M study over the Edwards Aquifer found no clear change in recharge after cedar was cut, though the authors said the study was too short to rule out longer-term gains. Clear cedar for grass, wildlife and access, and treat any water gain as a bonus.

In Texas ranch talk a stock tank is an earthen pond, dug to catch and hold runoff for livestock. Not a metal trough. See earthen stock tanks and ponds.

Texas Water Code 11.142 lets a landowner build a dam or reservoir on their own property holding up to 200 acre-feet for domestic and livestock use without a water-rights permit. Floodplain, aquifer and local rules can still apply, so check those too.

Sometimes not without help. The NRCS pond handbook calls limestone areas hazardous because hidden crevices can drain a pond. A test hole and a look at the soil come first. See building a tank that holds water.

The NRCS handbook puts beef cattle and horses at 12 to 15 gallons per head per day. Add what the sun takes and enough depth to ride out a dry spell. The guide walks through it.

Caliche is a layer of soil cemented together, usually by calcium carbonate, and common in dry parts of Texas. Road base is graded crushed rock. Millings are ground-up old asphalt that pack into a firm, darker surface. Each has a place. See the comparison.

Ranch roads last when water is moved off them: a crown, ditches, culverts sized to the flow and low-water crossings built to be driven when water runs. See road drainage. Never drive into moving water.

Yes. Graded building pads and ground leveled for concrete are a regular part of our work. See building pads and site prep.

No. TCEQ says construction and demolition waste is never to be burned. Demolition debris is hauled off. See demolition and haul-off.

Brush management and pond construction are both practices named in TPWD's wildlife management guidelines, but your plan and your county appraisal district decide what qualifies. We cannot promise a tax result. See land work and valuation.

Possibly. NRCS's EQIP program offers cost-share for practices such as Brush Management (314) and Pond (378). It starts with a visit from an NRCS planner, and payment follows work that meets NRCS standards. See the EQIP guide.