Wildfire Resilience Program
If your forest land investment lies west of the Kansas – Colorado Border, the biggest threat to your land holdings is catastrophic wildfire! Since the year 2000 the Western States have lost an average of 7 million acres to fire each year. Unchecked conifer encroachment brought on by decades of total fire suppression has put the forest ecosystem on the brink of collapse.
Even worse is the damage it has caused to resilient biodiversity and wildlife species survivability. 106 has dedicated almost two decades to find a safe way back from the precipice for private landowners.
Forest managers on public land have been forced into a reactive situation to mitigate the damage caused by fire instead of employing proactive forest management to prevent it.
106 Reforestation has developed a proprietary system to effectively convert over crowded conifer forests into healthy aspen forests. This GIS supported approach allows us to plot the proper removal of heavy forested trees relative to slope, grade, drainage as well as wind dynamics. We then create a plan that accounts for draft paths that wildfire may take and what clearing must be done to provide the appropriate amount of buffer to keep fire at the edge of your property, instead of in the middle of it. Our system creates an immediate regrowth that stabilizes the soils and creates a natural looking biodiverse forest in less time than it takes for the ash from a fire to wash away from the land.
106 stands alone to solve one of the most important issues facing the Western United States: expanding populations bumping up against the wildland interface. These neglected areas will certainly lead to astronomical damages when forests burn into home and cabin areas.
The benefits of the 106 “No Burn” approach to forest land management is its ability to accelerate aspen regeneration at a pace previously thought impossible, development of excellent wildlife habitat and creating improved watershed performance and water retention on your property. Results are quick. They can be seen with improved wildlife habitat, improved watershed and a forest that will withstand the threat of catastrophic fire for decades; bringing more value to your property and a much better contribution to carbon sequestration.