Forestwerx, your homegrown Fire Mitigation, Forestry & Trail Building experts

Howdy Friends and Neighbors!
We want to share some updates on your homegrown Fire Mitigation, Forestry & Trail Building experts!

*Our team of current and former mountain local Firefighter/Sawyers/ Mitigation Experts returned last year. We also welcomed some new faces.

*We have been incredibly busy, having treated over 100 acres of land by mid-2025, almost all of it being in Evergreen! Our projects included both hand and mechanical forestry treatments on project sizes ranging from 2-40 acres. Several of our projects were large scale pine beetle sanitation & reclamation, treating 100+ large infested ponderosa at a time. (We are proud to see so many friends, neighbors, and clients aggressively fighting our extreme pine beetle -> Fire risk problem!)

* Trailbuilding season! Several of our past projects included residential trail building and maintenance as a tangent to their fire mitigation efforts. One of them even included trail construction as a pre-built fire perimeter!

*We continued to add to our fleet of innovative equipment, including our FÖRST tracked chipper that seems to draw a crowd everywhere we take it! In addition, our 2nd forestry mulcher arrived, and we were excited to get it out into the field to serve you. We have also been proud to share some of our equipment to support fire mitigation capacity with multiple fire departments in the area.

* Our website www.forestwerx.com got a great facelift after some feedback from local customers that were having trouble accessing it! If you haven’t visited in a while, come check it out!

**Forestwerx became the very proud sponsor of Jeffco SLASH! You will see Forestwerx logos at all Jeffco Slash Sites/Website and even on your SLASH receipts! We urge all Jeffco Residents to utilize this incredible resource and are thrilled to support the efforts of the county and JCD to keep this program viable.

*** We have already starting to book for spring 2026 projects, however we may have capacity to take earlier projects depending on slope, aspect and size. If you have a Medium to large scale Forestry, Fire Mitigation or Trail building project on your list, we urge you to reach out proactively.

We wanted to wrap up by saying thank you so much to all of our local supporters. From our clients to our sideline cheerleaders and families, we most definitely could not do this without you! We know that you have many choices when it comes to fire mitigation and forestry, especially with so many new entries to the market from both near and far; we always feel so incredibly honored when you choose to support FORESTWERX!

Where to find us:
Web: www.forestwerx.com
Phone: 303-717-0090
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We’re shouting our gratitude from the rooftops for our incredible Forestwerx core team!

Eric, Harrison, Dale, Taylor, Justin, and Keenan absolutely crushed it in 2025. Together, this locally grown crew brings 60+ years of combined experience across wildland fire, urban interface fire, and forestry—representing six mountain fire districts, BLM, USFS, NPS, and multiple county agencies.

They hold some of the highest-level certifications in the field as sawyers, machine operators, and mitigation specialists, along with advanced degrees ranging from natural resource management to landscape architecture.

There’s truly no team like this one in the Front Range. From wildfire modeling and project assessment to expert timber felling and elite mechanical forestry work—this is the A-Team of fire mitigation and forestry. We’re incredibly proud and endlessly grateful. Here’s to an amazing and an even stronger 2026 together!

We also want to give a huge shoutout to our amazing partners:
Wolf Tree, Mountain Family Tree, Jefferson Conservation District, EFR Wildland Fire Division, The Laverty Group, Hardline Equipment, and so many others who supported and collaborated with us this year.

Something I never expected when we started this company in back in 2020, is the bittersweet feeling that comes with wrapping up a big project. We become attached to the land we work with, and the people who call it home. Saying goodbye can feel like saying goodbye to an old friend.

This was a 17 acre fire mitigation and forest health project in Conifer. This project presented many logistical, ecological, and terrain challenges, but it was exceptionally beautiful and delicate. Our team truly knocked it out of the park, attaining a final product that blew our certifying forester away, and made our landowner clients proud. All while finishing several weeks ahead of schedule. So again we say goodbye old friend, It is time to move onto the next!

A huge thank you to our partner landowners in Kings Valley that trusted us with their beloved land, and helped make this project such an exceptional success!

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Oh dang! Who dis? Oh wait... that's us!! Honored to share the pages of the March edition of Colorado Serenity Magazine with our friends from Evergreen Fire/Rescue and even one of our favorite land management advocates and restauranteur Evan Jeffries!!

Howdy there neighbors!

I wanted to take a minute to talk with you all about Forestry Mulching, also know as Forestry Mastication.

We have gotten a LOT of questions about forestry mulching at Forestwerx recently, as we had had many of you passing us on a highly visible project on Hwy 65 every day this week. There seems to be quite a lot of misinformation about this practice, so we wanted to take an opportunity to share some answers to our most common questions!

- While it can appear incredibly violent to a bystander, Forestry mulching is a very safe, ecologically sound, and extremely effective method of wildfire fuels modification where we target small diameter (typically 8 in or less) material and grind it in place. At Forestwerx, we use drum mulchers on both our forestry designed ASV skid steers, as well as highly modified Takeuchi excavators for steep slopes and rocky terrain.

-The mulched material is typical left on the ground, and is turned into the top layer of soil in our final clean up pass. While this material does stay in the forest, it DOES NOT significantly increase fire risk. In fact, areas that have been properly treated frequently hold greater soil moisture than they did pre-treatment.

- Forestry mulching does fully eradicate mountain pine beetles, and they, nor any other tree dwelling beetle, can survive in the resulting material on the forest floor.

-Because we take great care to ensure proper mulch size and depth, the majority of our projects have fully rehabilitated within 12 months, often times much faster than that.

- Where it is applicable, forestry mulching is a very cost effective solution for maintaining a healthy and fire hardened forest. Frequently costing about 1/2 to 1/3 less than the cost of comparable hand treatment per acre.

Because we have had so much interest about this recently, coupled with so much misinformation, I want to open the floor for any more questions to help increase our community's general understanding about this incredibly powerful tool in our wildfire prevention arsenal. Please feel free to ask questions here, DM me directly, or reach out to us at Forestwerx using the info below. Have a great weekend!

Thanks!
Kyle from Forestwerx

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