Wildfire Mitigation & Forestry Mulching in Black Forest, CO

Black Forest is exactly what the name says: a dense, continuous ponderosa stand sitting on the Palmer Divide, with houses tucked into it. The stand density here is the whole issue. Too many stems per acre means trees competing for limited water, which stresses them and invites beetles, and it means crowns close enough together that fire moves through the canopy rather than along the ground.\n\nThinning addresses both at once. We take out the small-diameter regrowth and the understory that has filled in since the last time anyone worked the property, and we open space between the crowns of the trees you are keeping. The result still looks like Black Forest. It just no longer has an unbroken path from the ground layer into the canopy.\n\nWe also see a lot of standing dead and old slash out here, both of which are worse than the green stand around them and both of which go through a mulcher. If you have piles from a previous thinning that never got burned, start there. That is usually the most dangerous fuel on the property and the fastest thing to fix.

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