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Professional Fire Mitigation

A Fully Insured Company Offering Premier Wildfire Mitigation Services

What are the advantages of wildfire mitigation?

  • Reducing the fuels on the property to decrease the risk of living in the wildland-urban interface.
  • Help meet current property insurance requirements.
  • Opening up new views.
  • Increase the drought tolerance of the ecosystem.
  • Improve the habitat for wildlife.

Masquelier Enterprise, LLC., offers affordable, local, knowledgeable and professional wildfire mitigation and lot thinning services that thin out the trees and brush on your property to help make your home more defendable during a wildfire. Thinning can help improve the health of the ecosystem and can open up the surrounding views, as well. We also offer light dirt work, such as leveling out driveways and spreading fresh gravel.

Services Offered

  • Property Assessments
  • Tree trimming and removal
  • Brush removal
  • Masticating or chipping timber and vegetation
  • Fire breaks

 

Skid Steer Services

  • Leveling driveways
  • Spreading gravel
  • Creating private trails
  • General dirt work

 

 

Do You Know Your Zones?

Creating Defensible Space:

Create a zone around your house that will slow the wildfire down and possibly direct it around your home. To do this, you must view your yard as a fuel source. Fire will only burn if fuel is present. Fuel can be your landscaping, woodpiles, decks, etc. To create your defensible space, take the following steps within 30 feet of your home, 50 feet if you live in a heavily treed area or 100 feet if your home is on a hillside. (If you live in California, a minimum of 100 feet is required.)

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  • Introduce more native vegetation.
  • Space trees at least 10 feet apart.
  • Remove dead or dying trees and shrubs.
  • Keep trees and shrubs pruned. Branches should be a minimum of 6 feet from the ground and shrubs under trees should be no more than 18 inches high.
  • Mow your lawn regularly and dispose promptly of cuttings and debris.
  • Maintain your irrigation system.
  • Clear your roof, gutters and eaves of debris.
  • Trim branches so they do not extend over the roof or near the chimney.
  • Move firewood and storage tanks 50 feet away from home and clear areas at least 10 feet around them.
  • Store flammable liquids in approved metal safety cans.
  • Do not connect wooden fencing directly to your home.
  • Keep the grounds around your home free of pine needles.

Before & After

As you can see, tree trimming and removal does not mean that we cut down every tree around your house! We work with you to create a plan to decrease the risk of losing your home to wildfires.

About Us

 

We are based out of Ouray County in Loghill, Colorado. Our goal is to help reduce the wildfire risk while maintaining the natural beauty of the surrounding areas. Masquelier Enterprise, LLC is a fully insured company and dedicated to improving your property while maintaining the natural character and beauty that you desire.

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