Scrub Oak Removal Service in Douglas County

The Colorado wildfires in 2012 and 2013 were an alarming alert to the dangers that one spark can do. The risks of this happening again are still here, so you need to find ways to prevent this around your home. Even if you have mostly Gambel or scrub oak in your area, you’ll need to take steps for fire mitigation, and clear or remove scrub oak in Douglas County on your property.

Unmanaged scrub oak is thick, pose wildfire threat, and impossible for livestock and wildlife to walk through. Removing scrub oak is not an easy task.

Mastication machines are one of the best ways to mitigate or remove scrub oak to protect your home and area from wildfire risk.

Help More Plants Resist Drought and Disease

Thick sections of oaks will affect the rest of the vegetation in the area. The oaks can soak up a lot of water, leading to other plants and vegetation to succumb to drought damage. They can become infected with disease or succumb insect infestations much easier.

Trees and vegetation that are dried and dying are more susceptible to fire damage. They offer the perfect fuel to turn that one spark into a fire.

When you thin the oaks though mastication, you’ll open more space for the other plants to thrive. They can take in more water and fight off diseases much easier.

Many other methods of brush clearing will leave behind slash. You have to spend time picking up the waste and then find a way to dispose of it safely. When you opt for mastication, the material left behind is all environmentally friendly. In fact, it’s nutritious for the ground, helping to improve the natural growth of plants and other vegetation.

Mastication

We create a full action plan to determine the trees, shrubs, brush, scrub oak and more that need removing. Whether it’s just one or 10 trees that need removing or if you need land clearing for a building project, we’ll use special machinery to remove necessary trees, scrub oak and brush without damaging others around.

Remove the Ladder Fuel

Many oak trees will grow underneath pines. These oaks are known as “ladder fuel.” The fire travels up the oaks and into the pines, spreading the fires much quicker and easier. Your mitigation plan should focus on removing these oaks to help prevent this threat.

Scrub Oak Pruning

In addition to removing scrub oak, we specialise in pruning stands of gamble oak with chainsaws and loppers. Pruning scrub oak consists of removing any dead, diseased and dying scrub oak trees and branches. We leave behind bigger and taller scrub oaks which are healthy and continue to grow nicely. We remove all suckers and small scrub oak.

Pruned scrub oak gives a nice clean look to your property. It is much safer to walk through mitigated stands for kids, grown ups, and animals. Open stands discourage critters from hiding in scrub oak. It will provide privacy fence from your neighbors and shade in summer. And the most important benefit that it is fire mitigated as all fuel ladders like suckers and small shrubs are removed.