Site Plan Review (SPR) Boulder County
Wildfire Partners is now taking care of site plan reviews for Boulder County, they will create a report for you and they offer grant money to accomplish this work. We are a contractor for Wildfire Partners and can do the tree work that may be required by Wildfire Partners. A plan to address the County's requirements for your defensible zones, emergency vehicle access is included in their report. If you need maintenance on your property to continue to meet these specifications, let us know, we will take care of it for you. Insurance companies are requiring mititgation work to be done around homes, we can help you with this. If Wildfire Partners can not help you, we can! For more information on fire mitigation, please see our Fire Mitigation information regarding topography and fire barriers.

You can view Boulder County's Site Plan information by clicking here.

The minimum standards for emergency vehicle access along your driveway is clearance to 13'6" overhead and 12' wide. Take a good look at your driveway and make sure it always meets this standard. Creating this standard is done by clearing tree branches and trees along the driveway to meet the Driveway Access Emergency Vehicles standards for Boulder County. Meeting this standard and having the forest thinned and limbed up along your driveway is a great invitation for the fire department to come to your house. Since we have extensive experience in fire mitigation and defending homes against wildfires, we will work with the homeowner to create the best plan for access to your home.

To view more information from Boulder County, please visit their website to view: Wildfire Partners

Wood material
Larger diameter wood can be cut into firewood lengths and used by the homeowner or removed from the property. We will go over options with you and figure out the best plan for your property.

Slash
There are 4 methods of dealing with the small diameter branches known as slash that occurs when we are limbing, (limbing is removing the lower branches on a tree) and cutting. These methods include: Chipping, piling and burning, lop and scatter, and removal. We can take care of slash by three of these techniques for you. We do not believe that lop and scatter is a viable techinque in our climate. The material does not rot quickly enough and poses a fire hazard for 10 to 20 years. This technique can work if the amount of material is limited to a very small quantity of branches in open areas. We will discuss options with you and costs to remove slash.

Chipping
Chipping is where smaller diameter branches are fed into a special machine that cuts the material up into small diameter pieces of wood, (chips). The chips can then be hauled away or kept on location. Broadcasting chips on the property poses less of a fire hazard than grasses. Chips must not be piled thicker than 6"as they can spontaniously combust. Our expertise in this area will make sure that the chipping is done correctly.

Piling and burning
Piling and burning slash is often the most economical way to remove slash. Because we are professional wildland fire fighters, we know how to pile slash for burning. We will pile the slash in areas where it can be burned. Due to contractor/private business not being able to obtain liability insurance, we can not offer to burn the piles for you. We can work with you and your local fire department to burn this material. Due to burn bans, lack of snow and local departments schedules, this option of slash removal has become a last resort.

Removal and hauling of Slash
This technique is simply disposing of slash in dumpsters, landfills, etc. We can haul slash off your property.