Forests that are safer, healthier and more resilient.
Utility line clearing, habitat restoration, fuel reduction and ecological restoration thinning, planned by foresters and carried out by our own crews.
Less fuel, less risk.
According to San Juan County’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan, nearly 85,000 acres of forest have a moderate or severe need for fuel reduction.
A warming climate, longer droughts and a historic lack of fire have built up fuels across the islands. We design and carry out projects tailored to your property and goals.
- Thinning and brush control by hand cutting and machine mastication
- Shaded fuel breaks along roads, driveways and trails
- Conservation biochar burns that cut fuel loads and return carbon and nutrients to the soil
Planning for tomorrow’s big trees.
Fire suppression and past high-grade logging left many island forests overcrowded and stressed. We can’t replace old growth overnight, but we can plan for the future.
- Thinning gives remaining trees more sunlight and water, and more vigor
- Favoring drought-tolerant species better adapted to a changing climate
- Protecting legacy snags and down logs
- Turning thinned material into habitat piles and decay logs
Keeping the lights on, and the trees healthy.
We’ve partnered with OPALCO for over seven years, working around its overhead power lines.
Our approach combines arboricultural pruning standards with line-clearance requirements, going beyond minimum clearances to promote lasting tree health and better grid reliability.
Shorelines, meadows and oak woodlands.
- Shoreline restoration design and implementation
- Shoreline tree removal planning within county shoreline tree protection zones
- Critical habitat assessments and mitigation plans
- Garry oak release and meadow restoration
- Outplanting the threatened golden paintbrush with The Nature Conservancy and USFWS