Firewise | Consulting Services
Forest Fire Risk Reduction and Defensible Space
Firewise will manage your forest in a manner that improves forest and landowner safety while also enhancing forest health. Homes that lie within the wildland-urban interface are in the path of fire. Through proactive management, we reduce the risk that fire poses by mechanically playing the role of fire. We will reduce forest fuels, reduce forest densities, and improve the health of your forest. Firewise will consult, design, and implement fuel reduction projects for individual homes and subdivisions within the forest. For more information about Defensible Space throughout the US, please click here. |
Forest Management and Habitat Restoration
A common goal to all forest management is to enhance our experience and relationship with the flora and fauna found within the forest. Whether for the management of elk, moose, and deer habitat or the encouragement of habitat for raptors and amphibians, we seek to increase the general biodiversity of the forest. We specialize in the re-establishment of pioneer species such as Aspen, Cottonwood, Lodgepole Pine, Ponderosa Pine, and other plant cover types that have become decadent as the result of a lack of fire. |
Bark Beetle Mitigation
As a direct result of firefighting successes over the past century, forests have grown dense and in need of regeneration and restoration. The bark beetle is a natural means of forest restoration that has become increasingly prevalent because of the interruption of natural fire regimes. Firewise will consult, design and implement bark beetle management strategies that limit the impacts of wide scale beetle populations. |
Carbon Sequestration
Management of carbon has provided for a lucrative emerging market in the United States and in Europe. Proper forest management will optimize forest health and vigour, resulting in a net increase in carbon sequestered within the forest. Firewise will manage your forest for increased carbon intake, we will quantify the amount of carbon sequestered in your forest, and we will arrange for the sale of carbon shares on one of the emerging carbon markets. Revenues derived from these sales will benefit the landowner on an annual basis.
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Landscape Architecture
Firewise has incorporated the artistry and responsibility of landscape architecture with the management principles of forestry. Today’s forest landowners are concerned with function as well as the appearance of the forest. We consider both the ecological function of the forest, as well as the appearance of the forest. |
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