A blend of landscape architecture with sound forestry and applied ecology.

1. Firewise Landscapes Inc.

2. Consult and Implement
• Firewise is a Full Service Forestry and Land
Ecology Company Throughout the West
• We Currently Manage Roughly 40,000 Acres
• Clients Range in Size from 1 Acre to 17,000
Acres
• We Work With Large Acre Ranches to Large
Insurance Companies to Conservation Holders
Subdivisions to Individual Clients on Small
Acreage
• We Consult and We Also Do the Work

3. Form and Function
• Blend Landscape Architecture with Sound
Forestry and Applied Ecology
• Today’s Western Landowner

4. Western Forestry / Beetle
Dynamics and Aspen
• Brief Discussion of the Western Conifer Forest
and the Quaking Aspen Forest
• Current Conditions of the Conifer Forests
• Current Condition of the Aspen Cover
• Frequently Asked Questions
• As a Real Estate Broker - What to Look For?
• What does Firewise do?

5. Bark Beetles – Why?

6. Conifer Forests Life Cycles
• Lodgepole Pine Example
– Pioneers
– Sun, Water, Nutrients
– Semi-Serotinous Cones
– Competition Creates Canopy
– Canopy Creates a Shady Understory
– Shady Understory Provides Habitat to Shade
Friendly Conifers

7. Lodgepole Pine Forest Example
• Sub Alpine Fir, Engelmann Spruce, Colorado
Spruce, Douglas Fir Grow Underneath the
Lodgepole
• They Outcompete the Lodgepole and Stress the
Lodgepole Forest
• In order to combat this competition there is a
fire. Serotinous cones open and spread seed
across a blank canvas because the fire took all
competition away
• Start All Over Again

8. Disturbance - Fire

9. Disturbance - Fire

10. No Fire
• There is an incredibly dense forest.
• Lots of Competition
• Lodgepole Forest Needs a Disturbance
• The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) has
physiologically evolved with the Lodgepole,
Ponderosa, Limber and Whitebark Forests of
the West
• The MPB plays the role of the fire. Opens up
the forest. Reduces competion.

11. Beetles Relationship
• Natural Disturbance
• Crude But Effective Way of Opening Up the
Forest and Reducing Competition

12. Attack Process and Life Cycle
• D. menziessii (Doug Fir Beetle) – Elevation
and Climate Based Flight (April)
• D. rufipennis (Spruce Beetle) (May)
• D. ponderosae (MPB) (July-Aug)
• Bell Shaped Flight Pattern

13. Attack Process and Life Cycle

14. Preventative Spray
•Small Acre Areas – Areas
Surrounding Homes
•Works Very Well to Prevent New
Beetle Attacks
•Gets the good insects with the bad
insects

15. Treatment - Pheromone
• Pheromone Manipulation – First Remove
Currently Infested

16. Treatment - Infrastructure
Logging is an intensive form of management. A good option for opening
access to the property, as well as a revenue producer.

17. Treatment–No Infrastructure
•Using a machine like this requires no installation of roads because there is no
extraction. It can be considered a lighter alternative to logging.

18. Habitat
• Play the role of a fire without having the fire
• Open up the forest, promote objective species,
reduce competition
• Get more light and temperature to the forest
floor
• Elk
– 65% of diet grasses and grass like plants
– 26% browse
– Within 100 yards of cover

19. Elk Habitat
•Forage, Cover, Water, and their Arrangement on the Landscape Influence
Habitat

20. Aspen

21. Aspen
• Fire Exclusion Results in Decadent Aspen
Stands
• Regenerate Aspen
• Great Habitat Enhancement
– Hunting Ranches
– Cattle Ranches
– Fire Protection

22. Revenues and Grants
• Revenues Go to Covering Costs to Forest
Treatment
• Firewise Sources and Writes Grants through a
number of Different Funding Sources
• Grants and Revenues Can Cover the Entire
Cost of Projects

23. Resource Management
• No Conflict of Interest
• Biomass Utilization Markets
• Traditional Markets

24. Carbon Markets

25. Live Water Relationship

26. Contact
• www.firewise.net
• Complimentary Initial Consultations